HC Deb 07 November 2001 vol 374 cc240-4W
Helen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in each local authority which retains grammar schools, what proportion of children received free school meals(a) in that local authority as a whole, (b) in each grammar school within the authority and (c) in other secondary schools within the authority, at the latest date for which figures are available. [11627]

Mr. Timms

[holding answer 5 November 2001]: Information showing free school meals figures for grammar schools and other secondary schools for each local education authority is contained in the following tables.

It is not departmental policy not to release individual school data unless the school has had the opportunity to check it. Schools have not had the opportunity to check their free school meals data.

Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in grammar schools and other maintained secondary school by government office region—January 2001
Grammar schools Other maintained secondary schools
Number of schools Day pupils Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals Number of schools Day pupils Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals
Salford 0 0 0 0.0 16 12,524 3,209 25.6
Sefton 0 0 0 0.0 22 20,676 4,093 19.8
St. Helens 0 0 0 0.0 12 12,159 2,331 19.2
Stockport 0 0 0 0.0 14 16,575 2,325 14.0
Tameside 0 0 0 0.0 18 15,368 3,096 20.1
Trafford 7 6,731 266 4.0 11 9,116 2,175 23.9
Warrington 0 0 0 0.0 12 13,833 1,400 10.1
Wigan 0 0 0 0.0 21 20,855 3,056 14.7
Wirral 4 4,350 237 5.4 19 19,831 6,219 31.4
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley 0 0 0 0.0 14 13,134 3,240 24.7
Bradford 0 0 0 0.0 27 34,214 9,160 26.8
Calderdale 2 1,988 43 2.2 13 12,896 2,430 18.8
Doncaster 0 0 0 0.0 17 21,378 3,829 17.9
East Riding of Yorkshire 0 0 0 0.0 18 22,627 1,943 8.5
Kingston Upon Hull, City of 0 0 0 0.0 16 16,012 4,324 27.0
Kirklees 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Leeds 0 0 0 0.0 43 47,168 8,482 18.0
North East Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0.0 12 11,735 2,421 20.6
North Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0.0 14 10,649 1,435 13.5
North Yorkshire 3 1,954 25 1.3 44 38,262 2,554 6.7
Rotherham 0 0 0 0.0 17 19,845 3,145 15.8
Sheffield 0 0 0 0.0 27 29,861 5,974 20.0
Wakefield 0 0 0 0.0 18 21,279 3,619 17.0
York 0 0 0 0.0 11 9,974 887 8.9
East Midlands
Derby 0 0 0 0.0 14 14,748 2,976 20.2
Derbyshire 0 0 0 0.0 47 47,828 5,109 10.7
Leicester 0 0 0 0.0 16 18,034 4,027 22.3
Leicestershire 0 0 0.0 54 44,659 3,081 6.9
Lincolnshire 15 11,987 213 1.8 48 32,006 3,482 10.9
Northamptonshire 0 0 0 0.0 60 49,192 5,285 10.7
Nottingham 0 0 0 0.0 20 13,910 5,168 37.2
Nottinghamshire 0 0 0 0.0 58 54,980 6,978 12.7
Rutland 0 0 0 0.0 3 2,255 113 5.0
West Midlands
Birmingham 8 6,694 333 5.0 69 62,345 22,554 36.2
Coventry 0 0 0 0.0 19 20,963 4,223 20.1
Dudley 0 0 0 0.0 22 19,938 2,995 15.0
Herefordshire 0 0 0 0.0 14 9,824 779 7.9
Sandwell 0 0 0 0.0 20 19,532 4,740 24.3
Shropshire 0 0 0 0.0 22 17,606 1,422 8.1
Solihull 0 0 0 0.0 13 15,586 1,875 12.0
Staffordshire 0 0 0 0.0 69 60,934 5,625 9.2
Stoke-on-Trent 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Telford and Wrekin 2 898 10 1.1 11 9,280 2,023 21.8
Walsall 2 1,369 32 2.3 18 20,015 3,641 18.2
Warwickshire 5 3,180 31 1.0 32 29,478 2,462 8.4
Wolverhampton 0 0 0 0.0 18 16,541 3,710 22.4
Worcestershire 0 0 0 0.0 61 40,308 4,140 10.3
East of England
Bedfordshire 0 0 0 0.0 57 36,987 3,735 10.1
Cambridgeshire 0 0 0 0.0 31 31,023 2,425 7.8
Essex 4 3,014 23 0.8 75 83,237 8,578 10.3
Hertfordshire 0 0 0 0.0 86 75,824 5,605 7.4
Luton 0 0 0 0.0 12 12,077 3,251 26.9
Norfolk 0 0 0 0.0 52 44,383 4,759 10.7
Peterborough 0 0 0 0.0 13 12,961 2,271 17.5
Southend-on-Sea 4 3,726 88 2.4 8 7,641 1,401 18.3
Suffolk 0 0 0 0.0 78 53,033 5,566 10.5
Thurrock 0 0 0 0.0 10 8,126 1,243 15.3
Inner London
Camden 0 0 0 0.0 10 10,870 3,137 28.9
City of London 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0
Hackney 0 0 0 0.0 9 7,921 3,514 44.4
Hammersmith and Fulham 0 0 0 0.0 8 7,181 2,374 33.1
Haringey 0 0 0 0.0 11 11,391 4,584 40.2
Islington 0 0 0 0.0 9 7,583 3,461 45.6

Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in grammar schools and other maintained secondary school by government office region—January 2001
Grammar schools Other maintained secondary schools
Number of schools Day pupils Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals Number of schools Day pupils Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals
Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 0 0.0 4 3,665 1,164 31.8
Lambeth 0 0 0 0.0 10 7,213 3,011 41.7
Lewisham 0 0 0 0.0 13 11,661 4,621 39.6
Newham 0 0 0 0.0 15 17,469 7,839 44.9
Southwark 0 0 0 0.0 13 10,221 5,401 52.8
Tower Hamlets 0 0 0 0.0 15 14,087 9,173 65.1
Wandsworth 0 0 0 0.0 9 9,948 2,670 26.8
Westminster 0 0 0 0.0 8 8,021 2,635 32.9
Outer Lyndon
Barking and Dagenham 0 0 0 0.0 8 11,079 2,879 26.0
Barnet 3 2,531 26 1.0 18 18,542 3,279 17.7
Bexley 4 4,382 151 3.4 12 13,080 2,065 15.8
Brent 0 0 0 0.0 13 14,480 3,554 24.5
Bromley 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Croydon 0 0 0 0.0 21 17,396 3,375 19.4
Ealing 0 0 0 0.0 13 11,940 4,355 31.2
Enfield 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Greenwich 0 0 0 0.0 14 13,834 4,646 33.6
Harrow 0 0 0 0.0 10 8,874 1,556 17.5
Havering 0 0 0 0.0 18 15,904 1,766 11.1
Hillingdon 0 0 0 0.0 17 16,472 2,440 14.8
Hounslow 0 0 0 0.0 14 16,292 3,213 19.7
Kingston upon Thames 2 1,891 15 0.8 8 6,748 775 11.5
Merton 0 0 0 0.0 11 7,754 1,262 16.3
Redbridge 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Richmond upon Thames 0 0 0 0.0 8 7,531 1,180 15.7
Sutton 5 4,629 51 1.1 9 9,951 1,081 10.9
Waltham Forest 0 0 0 0.0 16 12,980 3,887 29.9
South East
Bracknell Forest 0 0 0 0.0 6 6,022 289 4.8
Brighton and Hove 0 0 0 0.0 10 12,026 2,112 17.6
Buckinghamshire 13 14,513 179 1.2 21 18,703 2,035 10.9
East Sussex 0 0 0 0.0 26 27,807 3,635 13.1
Hampshire 0 0 0 0.0 71 70,564 4,628 6.6
Isle of Wight 0 0 0 0.0 21 11,920 1,989 16.7
Kent 33 29,140 634 2.2 72 63,852 8,475 13.3
Medway 6 5,988 186 3.1 14 13,849 1,764 12.7
Milton Keynes 0 0 0 0.0 11 12,058 1,438 11.9
Oxfordshire 0 0 0 0.0 45 38,271 3,641 9.5
Portsmouth 0 0 0 0.0 10 10,108 1,629 16.1
Reading 2 1,447 7 0.5 6 4,833 816 16.9
Slough 4 3,585 177 4.9 7 4,340 1,053 24.3
Southampton 0 0 0 0.0 14 12,235 2,110 17.2
Surrey 0 0 0 0.0 53 56,224 3,449 6.1
West Berkshire 0 0 0 0.0 10 11,747 556 4.7
West Sussex 0 0 0 0.0 39 42,818 2,962 6.9
Windsor and Maidenhead 0 0 0 0.0 13 10,207 573 5.6
Wokingham 0 0 0 0.0 9 10,758 509 4.7
South East
Bath and North East Somerset 0 0 0 0.0 13 12,273 969 7.9
Bournemouth 2 2,077 35 1.7 8 7,693 1,008 13.1
Bristol, City of 0 0 0 0.0 20 17,907 3,669 20.5
Cornwall 0 0 0 0.0 31 32,001 3,905 12.2
Devon 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Dorset 0 0 0 0.0 37 29,245 1,807 6.2
Gloucestershire 7 5,407 100 1.8 35 32,758 2,575 7.9
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0.0 1 95 6 6.3
North Somerset 0 0 0 0.0 10 12,269 958 7.8
Plymouth 3 2,645 82 3.1 15 16,184 2,547 15.7
Poole 2 1,879 32 1.7 7 6,318 560 8.9
Somerset 0 0 0 0.0 39 30,787 2,773 9.0
South Gloucestershire 0 0 0 0.0 14 16,442 1,238 7.5
Swindon 0 0 0 0.0 10 11,561 1,084 9.4
Torbay 3 2,697 101 3.7 5 6,011 1,109 18.4
Wiltshire 2 1,668 8 0.5 32 26,363 1,820 6.9
1 These local education authorities only have one specialist secondary 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.