Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students who received free school meals in secondary school are at each registered higher education provider.

The Office for Students (OfS) publishes counts and proportions of students that are eligible for Free School Meals (FSM)[1] as part of their ‘Size and shape of provision data dashboard’ which can be accessed here: https://officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/size-and-shape-of-provision-data-dashboard/data-dashboard/.

In the 2020/21 academic year, 138,550 full-time undergraduate students were recorded as eligible for FSM.

[1] The FSM measure is restricted to undergraduate students under 21 years at age of entry, who were found in the National Pupil Database Key Stage 4 data in 2009/10 or later.