Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary 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 secondary schools is published in the “Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014” Statistical First Release[1].

Table 8b shows local authority level information. Parliamentary constituency level information is not published. Information for 2010 to 2013 can be found in previous versions of this release.[2]

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

[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers