Andrew Stephenson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2016-02-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of how many eligible pupils did not claim free school meals in each of the last three years.

Mr Sam Gyimah

The Department only collects data on those eligible pupils who claim free school meals. To collect the data on pupils who did not claim free school meals could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.