Jamie Reed – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children living in the Copeland constituency have been eligible to receive free school meals in each of the last six years.
Mr Sam Gyimah
Data for the number of pupils eligible for free school meals in each school in England are available in the underlying data in each of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical releases.[1]
The number and proportion of pupils attending schools in Copeland who were known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in each of the last six years is given in the table below.
|
Year |
Number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals |
Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals |
|
2010 |
1,423 |
12.1 |
|
2011 |
1,420 |
12.0 |
|
2012 |
1,362 |
11.8 |
|
2013 |
1,395 |
12.3 |
|
2014 |
1,354 |
12.1 |
|
2015 |
1,253 |
11.1 |
Source: School Census
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers – click on the relevant year and then ‘underlying data.’ The data is contained in files with ‘Schools_Pupils’ in the title.
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