William Wragg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by William Wragg on 2016-04-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children in households whose income is below the threshold for receiving free school meals; and how many such children have at least one parent who is a national from another EEA member state.

Mr Sam Gyimah

In January 2015 there were 1,198,494 children known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals. All these children were in households whose income was below the threshold for receiving free school meals.

We do not hold any information on the nationality of the parents of these children.