Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in secondary schools in Barnsley were eligible for free school meals in each year since 2010.

The number and proportion of children in state-funded primary and secondary schools known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in each local authority are published in the annual ‘School, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical releases published at the following link:

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

The most recent data covering January 2019 can be found in Table 4c here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019.

The underlying data to these releases provides this information at school level.