Free School Meals: Surrey
(asked on 4th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children were eligible for free school meals in (a) Woking and (b) Surrey in the past year.
The number and proportion of children in schools in Woking constituency and Surrey local authority who were eligible for and claiming free school meals (FSM) is given in the table below.
| Number of pupils eligible and claiming FSM | Percentage of pupils eligible and claiming FSM |
Surrey | 13,281 | 8% |
Woking constituency | 1,285 | 9% |
Source: School census, as at January 2019
Figures include pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools and pupil referral units (including free schools and academy alternative provision).
This data is published at national, regional, local authority and school level in annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release. The 2019 publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019.