Free School Meals

HC Deb 17 July 2002 vol 389 cc372-4W

Mr. Coleman

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of school children are entitled to free school meals in each(a) Government office region and (b) local education authority. [68904]

Mr. Miliband

The information requested is shown in the table.

Maintained nursery, primary, secondary and all special schools:School meal arrangements as at January 2001, by local education authority
	Percentage of day pupils' known to be eligible for free school meals
	Nursery and primary schools2	Secondary schools2	Special schools
England	17.6	15.8	38.6
North East	24.0	21.1	50.9
Darlington	17.3	15.8	48.9
Durham	19.8	17.9	57.1
Gateshead	24.1	21.6	46.2
Hartlepool	25.2	25.8	41.4
Middlesbrough	29.1	35.8	60.9
Newcastle upon Tyne	34.4	25.3	67.1
North Tyneside	21.0	17.6	33.5
Northumberland	14.3	12.1	41.4
Redcar and Cleveland	23.7	22.8	36.9
South Tyneside	28.8	24.1	55.9
Stockton-on-Tees	20.1	20.0	61.4
Sunderland	31.4	30.0	47.9
North West	21.7	20.3	46.4
Blackburn with Darwen	25.2	26.0	42.8
Blackpool	25.8	22.0	44.3
Bolton	17.8	15.5	37.7
Bury	14.6	15.0	25.4
Cheshire	11.9	10.0	35.6
Cumbria	14.5	12.4	40.5
Halton	26.6	24.0	47.3
Knowsley	37.0	45.0	62.9
Lancashire	16.1	14.9	46.0
Liverpool	37.2	36.0	61.1
Manchester	42.7	43.8	56.7
Oldham	23.3	21.9	47.1
Rochdale	23.5	25.2	51.5
Salford	30.3	25.6	33.6
Sefton	19.3	19.8	41.4
St. Helens	20.5	19.2	46.9
Stockport	13.1	14.0	32.5
Tameside	19.3	20.1	41.9
Trafford	14.6	15.4	32.3
Warrington	11.2	10.1	32.2
Wigan	16.3	14.7	46.1
Wirral	29.7	26.7	51.9
Yorkshire and the Humber	18.3	17.2	41.3
Barnsley	21.8	24.7	49.7
Bradford	22.1	26.8	42.9
Calderdale	17.7	16.6	36.7
Doncaster	20.3	17.9	44.1
East Riding of Yorkshire	10.3	8.6	36.9
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	25.9	27.0	43.5

Maintained nursery, primary, secondary, and all special schools: School meal arrangements as at January 2001, by local education authority
	Percentage of day pupils1 known to be eligible for free school meals
	Nursery and Primary schools2	Secondary schools2	Special schools
Kirklees	18.7	18.0	50.3
Leeds	19.1	18.0	35.6
North East Lincolnshire	23.6	20.6	51.2
North Lincolnshire	15.3	13.5	38.7
North Yorkshire	8.9	6.4	26.5
Rotherham	19.6	15.8	44.6
Sheffield	21.5	20.0	47.6
Wakefield	17.5	17.0	40.5
York	11.1	8.9	32.0
East Midlands	13.6	12.6	35.6
Derby	20.3	20.2	35.6
Derbyshire	12.8	10.7	38.0
Leicester	23.9	22.3	38.0
Leicestershire	7.8	6.9	47.4
Lincolnshire	6.6	8.4	31.5
Northamptonshire	9.9	10.7	29.8
Nottingham	32.3	37.2	44.0
Nottinghamshire	13.4	12.7	34.4
Rutland	5.0	5.0	3.0
West Midlands	19.1	17.4	38.9
Birmingham	32.8	33.2	43.6
Coventry	19.3	20.1	43.0
Dudley	14.3	15.0	38.9
Herefordshire	8.1	7.9	17.4
Sandwell	23.5	24.3	47.6
Shropshire	10.2	8.1	25.0
Solihull	12.6	12.0	33.2
Staffordshire	12.1	9.2	36.6
Stoke-on-Trent	28.5	24.3	50.3
Telford and Wrekin	20.4	20.0	36.3
Walsall	18.0	17.2	46.4
Warwickshire	10.3	7.6	25.0
Wolverhampton	22.3	22.4	45.3
Worcestershire	9.0	10.3	32.6
East of England	12.4	10.5	28.6
Bedfordshire	11.1	10.1	29.3
Cambridgeshire	9.5	7.8	22.0
Essex	11.7	10.0	29.9
Hertfordshire	9.1	7.4	25.9
Luton	21.3	26.9	38.2
Norfolk	14.3	10.7	30.2
Peterborough	22.0	17.5	36.6
Southend-on-Sea	19.2	13.1	35.1
Suffolk	11.9	10.5	27.7
Thurrock	15.3	15.3	26.5
London	25.9	25.8	45.7
Inner London	38.2	42.1	53.7
Camden	42.3	28.9	39.5
City of London	33.8	0.0	0.0
Hackney	39.6	44.4	59.1
Hammersmith and Fulham	43.2	33.1	54.5
Haringey	36.9	40.2	52.6
Islington	41.3	45.6	55.8
Kensington and Chelsea	38.2	31.8	7.0
Lambeth	37.7	41.7	66.2
Lewisham	32.7	39.6	57.2
Newham	34.2	44.9	26.5
Southwark	35.9	52.8	49.6
Tower Hamlets	54.3	65.1	78.3
Wandsworth	28.9	26.8	48.2
Westminster	36.8	32.9	51.7
Outer London	18.9	18.3	40.4
Barking and Dagenham	23.2	26.0	34.8
Barnet	17.0	15.7	38.1
Bexley	14.0	12.7	37.5

Maintained nursery, primary, secondary, and all special scholls: School meal arrangements as at January 2001, by local education authority
	Percentage of day pupils1 known to be eligible for free school meals
	Nursery and Primary schools2	Secondary schools2	Special schools
Brent	26.9	24.5	43.3
Bromley	13.9	11.8	34.4
Croydon	20.9	19.4	43.0
Ealing	24.0	31.2	47.6
Enfield	22.1	20.3	39.5
Greenwich	35.5	33.6	59.5
Harrow	12.0	17.5	32.0
Havering	11.9	11.1	30.9
Hillingdon	14.0	14.8	38.0
Hounslow	22.0	19.7	45.3
Kingston upon Thames	6.9	9.1	22.4
Merton	15.1	16.3	30.6
Redbridge	15.8	15.2	34.5
Richmond upon Thames	10.5	15.7	30.3
Sutton	12.3	7.8	42.7
Waltham Forest	26.6	29.9	44.8
South East	8	9.1	29.4
Bracknell Forest	6.9	4.8	18.6
Brighton and Hove	18.6	17.6	36.0
Buckinghamshire	5.6	6.7	36.5
East Sussex	14.7	13.1	35.4
Hampshire	9.0	6.6	22.7
Isle of Wight	18.8	16.7	36.2
Kent	13.1	9.8	33.9
Medway	12.9	9.8	29.8
Milton Keynes	13.2	11.9	45.7
Oxfordshire	9.1	9.5	22.6
Portsmouth	17.1	16.1	34.6
Reading	14.9	13.1	29.0
Slough	15.6	15.5	35.0
Southampton	22.7	17.2	38.3
Surrey	7.4	6.1	20.7
West Berkshire	6.4	4.7	21.1
West Sussex	7.6	6.9	24.7
Windsor and Maidenhead	6.6	5.6	40.2
Wokingham	3.8	4.7	35.6
South West	12.0	9.7	30.3
Bath and North East Somerset	10.5	7.9	25.2
Bournemouth	9.8	10.7	37.4
Bristol, City of	22.6	20.5	40.6
Cornwall	13.1	12.2	29.1
Devon	12.4	10.2	26.3
Dorset	4.6	6.2	19.9
Gloucestershire	9.7	7.0	26.0
Isles of Scilly	6.4	6.3	0.0
North Somerset	10.0	7.8	33.7
Plymouth	20.7	14.0	38.8
Poole	6.2	7.2	25.7
Somerset	10.7	9.0	28.2
South Gloucestershire	8.2	7.5	25.7
Swindon	12.5	9.4	35.0
Torbay	19.4	13.9	30.4
Wiltshire	8.8	6.5	27.9
1Excludes boarders
2Includes middle schools as deemed

Source:

Annual schools, Census