Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary school pupils and (b) infant school pupils in Ashfield constituency received free school meals in each of the last five years.

Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in state-funded nursery and primary schools is published in the “Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014” statistical first release, which is published online at:

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

Table 8a shows local authority level information; information is not published at parliamentary constituency level.

Information for 2010 to 2013 can be found in previous versions of this release, which are published online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers