Free School Meals

HC Deb 08 March 2001 vol 364 cc304-6W

Mr. Chaytor

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many and what percentage of pupils are eligible for free school meals in each English local education authority. [152503]

Ms Estelle Morris

The numbers of full-time pupils of up to maximum compulsory school age 'known to be eligible for free school meals' and expressed as a percentage of all full-time pupils of that age group in mainstream, maintained schools in each English local education authority are shown in the table. The data are as collected by the Department's Annual Schools' Census.

Mainstream, maintained schools in England—January 2000
	Full-time pupils of up to maximum compulsory school age known to be eligible for a free school meal
Local education authority	Number	Percentage1
Barking and Dagenham	7,230	27.9
Barnet	7,480	18.0
Barnsley	8,450	26.6
Bath and North East Somerset	2,500	10.8
Bedfordshire	6,630	12.0
Bexley	5,400	15.2
Birmingham	55,900	34.6
Blackburn with Darwen	6,850	28.7
Blackpool	4,960	25.4
Bolton	8,130	18.9
Bournemouth	2,270	11.6
Bracknell Forest	1,010	7.4
Bradford	21,310	27.8
Brent	9,580	28.8
Brighton and Hove	5,880	21.5
Bristol, City of	10,950	23.5
Bromley	5,880	14.2
Buckinghamshire	4,350	6.7
Bury	4,520	16.0
Calderdale	5,860	18.6
Cambridgeshire	7,030	9.8
Camden	7,780	39.7
Cheshire	12,840	13.2
City of London	80	36.9
Cornwall	9,770	14.7
Coventry	9,340	20.8
Croydon	10,400	22.9
Cumbria	11,100	15.8
Darlington	2,910	19.6
Derby	7,750	22.6
Derbyshire	14,150	13.5
Devon	10,670	11.9
Doncaster	10,440	22.8
Dorset	3,350	6.7

Mainstream, maintained schools in England—January 2000
	Full-time pupils of up to maximum compulsory school age known to be eligible for a free school meal
Local education authority	Number	Percentage1
Dudley	7,780	16.6
Durham	15,100	21.2
Ealing	10,850	29.3
East Riding of Yorkshire	5,120	11.3
East Sussex	9,300	15.4
Enfield	10,220	24.2
Essex	22,620	12.3
Gateshead	7,050	26.1
Gloucestershire	7,730	9.8
Greenwich	12,130	39.1
Hackney	11,270	46.5
Halton	5,600	28.1
Hammersmith and Fulham	6,390	43.0
Hampshire	14,270	8.3
Haringey	12,840	42.9
Harrow	3,940	14.2
Hartlepool	4,480	29.3
Havering	4,470	12.8
Herefordshire	1,750	7.6
Hertfordshire	14,660	9.8
Hillingdon	5,160	15.1
Hounslow	7,620	24.9
Isle of Wight	3,510	19.8
Isles of Scilly	10	5.2
Islington	10,310	45.4
Kensington and Chelsea	3,910	39.7
Kent	25,250	13.3
Kingston upon Hull, City of	11,700	29.8
Kingston upon Thames	1,540	9.0
Kirklees	12,300	20.8
Knowsley	12,250	46.8
Lambeth	10,910	43.8
Lancashire	29,560	17.3
Leeds	22,290	21.7
Leicester	10,990	24.9
Leicestershire	7,120	8.2
Lewisham	11,740	37.4
Lincolnshire	7,330	8.1
Liverpool	29,080	41.5
Luton	7,280	25.3
Manchester	29,570	45.4
Medway	5,590	13.6
Merton	3,890	19.3
Middlesbrough	7,810	34.9
Milton Keynes	4,380	14.6
Newcastle upon Tyne	11,550	32.3
Newham	19,310	43.9
Norfolk	15,090	14.5
North East Lincolnshire	6,330	24.0
North Lincolnshire	3,640	15.0
North Somerset	2,560	10.1
North Tyneside	6,330	23.0
North Yorkshire	7,360	9.2
Northamptonshire	11,300	11.9
Northumberland	6,520	14.6
Nottingham	14,320	39.2
Nottinghamshire	16,920	15.8
Oldham	9,860	25.3
Oxfordshire	7,590	10.1
Peterborough	5,930	22.3
Plymouth	7,320	20.2
Poole	1,530	8.5
Portsmouth	4,520	17.8
Reading	2,400	16.1
Redbridge	6,620	18.4
Redcar and Cleveland	6,560	27.8
Richmond upon Thames	2,530	13.8
Rochdale	9,170	27.2
Rotherham	8,810	21.7
Rutland	260	5.5
Salford	10,130	29.2
Sandwell	12,330	26.3
Sefton	9,780	22.8

Mainstream, maintained schools in England—January 2000
	Full-time pupils of up to maximum compulsory school age known to be eligible for a free school meal
Local education authority	Number	Percentage1
Sheffield	16,420	23.9
Shropshire	3,830	10.2
Slough	3,080	18.6
Solihull	4,610	13.4
Somerset	7,150	10.7
South Gloucestershire	3,220	8.7
South Tyneside	6,840	29.0
Southampton	6,510	22.1
Southend-on-Sea	4,370	19.0
Southwark	14,470	45.6
St. Helens	6,020	22.2
Staffordshire	14,580	12.1
Stockport	6,070	14.7
Stockton-on-Tees	6,900	23.5
Stoke-on-Trent	10,350	27.9
Suffolk	11,750	13.1
Sunderland	13,550	30.4
Surrey	10,140	8.1
Sutton	3,010	12.2
Swindon	3,410	12.0
Tameside	7,570	21.3
Telford and the Wrekin	5,350	22.4
Thurrock	3,620	17.3
Torbay	3,480	20.4
Tower Hamlets	20,970	62.6
Trafford	6,350	19.3
Wakefield	9,640	20.3
Walsall	9,010	20.9
Waltham Forest	9,860	30.9
Wandsworth	7,920	31.7
Warrington	3,650	12.2
Warwickshire	7,070	10.0
West Berkshire	1,390	6.6
West Sussex	8,520	8.9
Westminster	6,380	39.6
Wigan	8,210	17.2
Wiltshire	5,130	8.5
Windsor and Maidenhead	1,170	7.0
Wirral	15,240	31.1
Wokingham	960	4.5
Wolverhampton	8,820	24.1
Worcestershire	7,510	10.1
York	2,650	11.7
1 Numbers of full-time pupils of up to maximum compulsory school age 'known to be eligible for free school meals' expressed as a percentage of all full-time pupils of that age group

Source:

DfEE Annual Schools' Census, January 2000