Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils who were (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals and were (i) white British and (ii) not white British achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics in each local authority area in each of the last three years.

Information is not held in the requested format.

The Department for Education does publish information separately at local authority level on the number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and the breakdown by major ethnicities in the ‘GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics:2014’.[1] Data for earlier years is also available from this publication.

[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics-2014