HC Deb 05 November 2001 vol 374 cc46-51W
Helen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in each LEA how many and what proportion of secondary school pupils received free school meals; how many pupils received free school meals and what proportion of the intake this represents at each specialist school within the LEA, at the latest date for which information is available. [11628]

Mr. Timms

Information showing free school meals data for specialist and other secondary schools by local education authority is contained in the table.

Number of pupils eligible for free school meals in specialist secondary schools and other maintained secondary schools, January 2001, by Government office region
Specialist secondary schools Other maintained secondary schools
Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM
Stockport 2 2,791 469 16.8 12 13,784 1,856 13.5
Tameside 2 2,357 593 25.2 16 13,011 2,503 19.2
Trafford 5 5,000 1,161 23.2 13 10,846 1,280 11.8
Wigan 7 7,716 910 11.8 14 13,139 2,146 16.3
Blackburn with Darwen 2 2,143 448 20.9 7 7,358 2,021 27.5
Blackpool 2 2,204 397 18.0 6 5,620 1,324 23.6
Lancashire 17 16,642 1,350 8.1 72 58,172 9,832 16.9
Knowsley 3 3,160 1,226 38.8 8 7,080 3,386 47.8
Liverpool 9 10,775 2,781 25.8 24 22,701 9,282 40.9
St. Helens 3 4,167 649 15.6 9 7,992 1,682 21.0
Sefton 3 3,893 493 12.7 19 16,783 3,600 21.5
Wirral 5 5,759 1,452 25.2 18 18,422 5,004 27.2
Yorkshire and the Humber
East Riding of Yorkshire 5 7,333 527 7.2 13 15,294 1,416 9.3
Kingston upon Hull, City of 3 4,446 807 18.2 13 11,566 3,517 30.4
North East Lincolnshire 3 3,264 850 26.0 9 8,471 1,571 18.5
North Lincolnshire 3 2,933 428 14.6 11 7,716 1,007 13.1
York 4 4,929 295 6.0 7 5,045 592 11.7
North Yorkshire 8 8,703 445 5.1 39 31,513 2,134 6.8
Barnsley1
Doncaster 0 0 0 0.0 17 21,378 3,829 17.9
Rotherham 4 4,910 648 13.2 13 14,935 2,497 16.7
Sheffield 8 9,596 1,371 14.3 19 20,265 4,603 22.7
Bradford 8 12,539 2,869 22.9 19 21,675 6,291 29.0
Calderdale1
Kirklees 6 6,073 921 15.2 26 20,242 3,823 18.9
Leeds 8 9,799 1,444 14.7 35 37,369 7,038 18.8
Wakefield 5 6,758 1,283 19.0 13 14,521 2,336 16.1
East Midlands
Derby 3 3,739 458 12.2 11 11,009 2,518 22.9
Derbyshire 10 11,201 869 7.8 37 36,627 4,240 11.6
Leicester 5 5,436 1,389 25.6 11 12,598 2,638 20.9
Rutland1
Leicestershire 9 12,977 822 6.3 45 31,682 2,259 7.1
Lincolnshire 15 14,151 1,089 7.7 48 29,842 2,606 8.7
Northamptonshire 12 14.933 909 6.1 48 34,259 4,376 12.8
Nottingham 2 2,115 690 32.6 18 11,795 4,478 38.0
Nottinghamshire 4 5,927 830 14.0 54 49,053 6,148 12.5
West Midlands
Herefordshire 2 2,032 99 4.9 12 7,792 680 8.7
Worcestershire 7 7,638 801 10.5 54 32,670 3,339 10.2
Telford and Wrekin 2 1,521 204 13.4 111 8,657 1,829 21.1
Shropshire 4 4,075 288 7.1 18 13,531 1,134 8.4
Stoke-on-Trent 3 2,870 623 21.7 14 11,962 2,980 24.9
Staffordshire 4 5,348 478 8.9 65 55,586 5,147 9.3
Warwickshire 5 5,108 427 8.4 32 27,550 2,066 7.5
Birmingham 26 25,401 8,061 31.7 51 43,638 14,826 34.0
Coventry 4 5,091 1,074 21.1 15 15,872 3,149 19.8
Dudley1
Sandwell 3 3,240 1,052 32.5 17 16,292 3,688 22.6
Solihull 2 2,398 60 2.5 11 13,188 1,815 13.8
Walsall 3 3,476 682 19.6 17 17,908 2,991 16.7
Wolverhampton 5 4,695 768 16.4 13 11,846 2,942 24.8
East of England
Luton 2 2,449 367 15.0 10 9,628 2,884 30.0
Bedfordshire1
Peterborough 2 2,583 372 14.4 11 10,378 1,899 18.3
Cambridgeshire 10 10,629 719 6.8 21 20,394 1,706 8.4
Southend-on-Sea 3 2,840 367 12.9 9 8,527 1,122 13.2
Thurrock1
Essex 19 24,000 2,336 9.7 60 62,251 6,265 10.1
Hertfordshire 11 10,956 522 4.8 75 64,868 5,083 7.8
Norfolk 12 13,198 1,343 10.2 40 31,185 3,416 11.0
Suffolk 12 12,538 1,053 8.4 66 40,495 4,513 11.1

Number of pupils eligible for free school meals in specialist secondary schools and other maintained secondary schools, January 2001, by Government office region
Specialist secondary schools Other maintained secondary schools
Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM
London
Inner London
City of London 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0
Camden 4 4,545 1,254 27.6 6 6,325 1,883 29.8
Hackney 5 4,411 2,061 46.7 4 3,510 1,453 41.4
Hammersmith and Fulham1
Halingey1
Islington 2 1,815 904 49.8 7 5,768 2,557 44.3
Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 0 0.0 4 3,665 1,164 31.8
Lambeth 3 2,398 940 39.2 7 4,815 2,071 43.0
Lewisham 0 0 0 0.0 13 11,661 4,621 39.6
Newham 5 6,667 2,662 39.9 10 10,802 5,177 47.9
Southwark 2 1,844 1,029 55.8 11 8,377 4,372 52.2
Tower Hamlets 4 4,050 3,005 74.2 11 10,037 6,168 61.5
Wandsworth 5 6,397 1,601 25.0 4 3,551 1,069 30.1
Westminster 2 1,777 556 31.3 6 6,244 2,079 33.3
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham 3 3,709 746 20.1 5 7,370 2,133 28.9
Barnet 3 3,502 623 17.8 18 17,571 2,682 15.3
Bexley1
Brent 4 3,848 856 22.2 9 10,632 2,698 25.4
Bromley 5 6,274 589 9.4 12 14,964 1,915 12.8
Croydon1
Ealing 5 6,164 1.756 28.5 8 7,776 2,599 33.4
Enfield 0 0 0 0.0 17 20,530 4,172 20.3
Greenwich 5 5,767 2,125 36.8 9 8,067 2,521 31.3
Harrow 0 0 0 0.0 10 8,874 1,556 17.5
Havering 2 2,068 239 11.6 16 13,836 1,527 11.0
Hillingdon 3 3,869 356 9.2 14 12,603 2,084 16.5
Hounslow 2 2,526 371 14.7 12 13,766 2,842 20.6
Kingston upon Thames 0 0 0 0.0 10 8,639 790 9.1
Merton 0 0 0 0.0 11 7,754 1,262 16.3
Redbridge 5 6,301 1,318 20.9 11 12,567 1,547 12.3
Richmond upon Thames 0 0 0 0.0 8 7,531 1,180 15.7
Sutton1
Waltham Forest 3 2,997 514 17.2 13 9,983 3,373 33.8
South East
Bracknell Forest 0 0 0 0.0 6 6,022 289 4.8
Windsor and Maidenhead 0 0 0 0.0 13 10,207 573 5.6
West Berkshire 6 7.037 391 5.6 4 4,710 165 3.5
Reading1
Slough 2 1,483 285 19.2 9 6,442 945 14.7
Wokingham 2 2,190 61 2.8 7 8,568 448 5.2
Milton Keynes 4 4,465 466 10.4 7 7,593 972 12.8
Buckinghamshire 9 9,165 314 3.4 25 24,051 1,900 7.9
Brighton and Hove 2 2,872 385 13.4 8 9,154 1,727 18.9
East Sussex 7 8,687 1,010 11.6 19 19,120 2,625 13.7
Portsmouth1
Southampton 0 0 0 0.0 14 12,235 2,110 17.2
Hampshire 7 8,633 456 5.3 64 61,931 4,172 6.7
Isle of Wight 2 2,356 317 13.5 19 9,564 1,672 17.5
Kent 13 13,541 1,108 8.2 92 79,451 8,001 10.1
Medway 4 4,363 333 7.6 16 15,474 1,617 10.4
Oxfordshire 8 10,697 798 7.5 37 27,574 2,843 10.3
Surrey 12 15,901 661 4.2 41 40,323 2,788 6.9
West Sussex 8 11,486 493 4.3 31 31,332 2,469 7.9
South West
Bath and North East Somerset 5 5,219 339 6.5 8 7,054 630 8.9
Bristol, City of 3 3,082 489 15.9 17 14,825 3,180 21.5
North Somerset 5 5,891 547 9.3 5 6,378 411 6.4
South Gloucestershire 3 4,474 278 6.2 11 11,968 960 8.0
Cornwall 12 13,683 1,637 12.0 19 18,318 2,268 12.4
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0.0 1 95 6 6.3
Torbay1

Number of pupils eligible for free school meals in specialist secondary schools and other maintained secondary schools, January 2001, by Government office region
Specialist secondary schools Other maintained secondary schools
Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM Number of schools Number of day pupils Number of pupils eligible for FSM Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM
Plymouth 6 6,786 1,135 16.7 12 12,043 1,494 12.4
Devon 6 9,010 777 8.6 31 30,793 3,290 10.7
Bournemouth 3 3,802 269 7.1 7 5,968 774 13.0
Poole 2 2,321 109 4.7 7 5,876 483 8.2
Dorset 7 7,409 489 6.6 30 21,836 1,318 6.0
Gloucestershire 13 13,729 792 5.8 29 24,436 1,883 7.7
Somerset 8 6,966 585 8.4 31 23,821 2,188 9.2
Swindon 2 2,358 358 15.2 8 9,203 726 7.9
Wiltshire 9 9,571 685 7.2 25 18,460 1,143 6.2
1These local education authorities only have one specialist school. It is departmental policy not to release individual school level information unless the school has had the opportunity to check or confirm that information. Schools have not had the opportunity to check their free school meals data.

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