Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children eligible for free school meals attained adequate levels of school readiness in (a) Birkenhead constituency, (b) Wirral, (c) the Liverpool City Region, and (d) England.

The requested data is provided in Annex A, which is attached.

For completeness, figures have been provided for the two key Early Years Foundation Stage Profile indicators. These are the number of children achieving a Good Level of Development, which is the measure more widely used to assess school readiness, and the number of children achieving at least the expected level in all 17 Early Learning Goals.