HC Deb 15 July 1998 vol 316 c226W
Mr. Nigel Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of primary school children in Gloucestershire, by district, are eligible for free school meals. [49253]

Mr. Byers

Provisional figures show that 12.1 per cent. of pupils in maintained primary schools in the Gloucestershire Local Education Authority area in January 1998 were known to be eligible for free school meals.

Mr. Nigel Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what percentage of primary school children in Cheltenham, by school, are eligible for free school meals;. [49254]

(2) what percentage of primary school children in Cheltenham, by school, were eligible for free school meals in 1987. [49255]

Mr. Byers

Information on school meals for individual schools is not published centrally.