Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were eligible for Free School Meals in (a) Wakefield, (b) Leeds, (c) Kirklees, (d) Bradford and (e) Calderdale Local Authority areas on 1 January 2020.
The number of children that were eligible for Free School Meals in England and (a) Wakefield, (b) Leeds, (c) Kirklees, (d) Bradford and (e) Calderdale Local Authority areas in January 2020 is given in the table below.
Area | Headcount | Per cent |
England | 1,440,788 | 17.3 |
Wakefield | 9,285 | 17.2 |
Leeds | 25,488 | 20.1 |
Kirklees | 14,215 | 21.0 |
Bradford | 20,938 | 20.7 |
Calderdale | 7,014 | 19.1 |
Source: School census, January 2020 - https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/96abea42-23cf-4412-910b-85d104f9be9d.
Data for October 2020 is currently being collected through the autumn term school census and is not yet available.