§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many(a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils live more than three miles from the school that they attend. [162077]
§ Mr. Miliband[holding answer 18 March 2004]: The information requested is shown in the table.
Numbers of pupils living more than three miles from the maintained Primary and secondary schools1 that they attend — January 2003 Primary Secondary Number of school population travelling more than three miles 155,187 583,446 Percentage of school population travelling more than three miles 3.7 17.8 1 Includes middle schools as deemed Source:
Annual Schools'Census
Maintained primary and secondary schools: Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals by ethnic group and gender1— January 2003 Pupils of compulsory school age and above England Maintained Primary2 Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals3 Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals4 Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total White 226,395 218,367 444,762 15.5 15.6 15.6 White British 214,385 207,118 421,503 15.2 15.3 15.3 Irish 1,549 1,413 2,962 22.7 21.7 22.2 Traveller of Irish heritage 843 841 1,684 64.0 65.0 64.5 Any other White background 8,449 7,814 16,263 23.1 22.5 22.8 Gypsy Roma 1,169 1,181 2,350 53.6 54.8 54.2 Mixed 14,835 14,558 29,393 28.2 28.3 28.2 White and Black Caribbean 6,500 6,599 13,099 35.3 35.3 35.3 White and Black African 1,430 1,457 2,887 30.0 30.2 30.1 White and Asian 2,152 2,034 4,186 20.4 20.1 20.3 Any other mixed background 4,753 4,468 9,221 25.1 25.0 25.1 Asian 32,317 31,251 63,568 26.9 27.1 27.0 Indian 4,482 4,370 8,852 11.7 12.0 11.8 Pakistani 16,402 15,726 32,128 32.5 32.6 32.5 Bangladeshi 9,013 8,851 17,864 44.6 44.7 44.6 Any other Asian background 2,420 2,304 4,724 21.3 21.6 21.5 Black 24,803 24,187 48,990 38.5 38.2 38.4 Black Caribbean 8,022 7,909 15,931 31.1 31.2 31.2 Black African 14,128 13,737 27,865 44.6 44.1 44.4 Any other Black background 2,653 2,541 5,194 37.7 37.6 37.6 Chinese 580 570 1,150 10.8 10.5 10.6 Any other ethnic group 6,316 5,648 11,964 41.5 40.0 40.7 Classified 305,246 294,581 599,827 17,8 17.9 17.8 Unclassified5 11,280 10,345 21,625 19.3 19.5 19.4 All Pupils1 316,526 304,926 621,452 17.8 18.0 17.9