Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will calculate the proportion of (a) pupils known to be eligible for free school meals achieving 5+ A*- C GCSEs (or equivalent) grades including English and mathematics and (b) all other pupils achieving 5+ A* - C GCSEs (or equivalent) grades including English and mathematics, by local authority and region for the 2013-14 GCSE results using the 2013 methodology.

2013/14 Key Stage 4 results by local authority using the 2013 methodology have not yet been published by the Department for Education.

Information on pupils achieving 5+ A*- C GCSEs (or equivalent) grades including English and mathematics using the 2013 methodology by local authority will be released in mid-March.

Information on the attainment of pupils by free school meals (FSM) using the 2013 methodology at national level is published in table 1 of the ‘GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics: 2014’ Statistical First Release. This is published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics-2014