Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary school and (b) infant school pupils in (i) Barnsley East constituency, (ii) South Yorkshire, (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber and (iv) the UK 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 2014 is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014’ Statistical First Release.[1]

Table 8a shows local authority and regional level information for primary school and nursery school pupils; parliamentary constituency level information and primary and infant school splits are not published. Barnsley East is one of five constituencies within Barnsley local authority. South Yorkshire is made up of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield local authorities. The Department for Education produces statistics on England only. The responsibility for education statistics in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales lies with each devolved administration. Information for 2010 to 2013 can be found in previous versions of this release.[2]

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

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