Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children receive free school meals in each (a) free school and (b) local authority area where a free school has been established.

Information on the percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals was included in the publication ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2014'.[1]

Information on the percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in individual schools, including free schools, is provided in the publication's underlying data. This includes school type and local authority.

Table 8a in the publication shows the percentage of pupils in state-funded nursery and primary schools known to be eligible and claiming free school meals by each local authority area. Table 8b shows the percentage of pupils in state funded secondary schools known to be eligible and claiming free school meals by each local authority area. Table 3 shows the percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in free schools nationally.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014