Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students qualify for free school meals in each secondary school in (a) Ashfield constituency; and what the average number is of students that qualify for free school meals in secondary schools in England.

The number of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) in England is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018.

Data for each school is available in the ‘Schools pupils and their characteristics 2018’, underlying data, contained in file ‘Schools_Pupils_and_their_Characteristics _2018_Schools_Pupils_UD’.

The figures can be filtered by parliamentary constituency name (column X), school phase e.g. state-funded secondary schools (column N). Column EF, EG provide the number and % of pupils known to be eligible for FSM, respectively.

The proportion of pupils eligible for FSM in state-funded secondary schools in England is provided in Table 3a of the national tables.