Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children living in (a) Wansbeck constituency and (b) the North East of England and (c) England received free school meals in each of the last three years.

The proportion of children attending schools in Wansbeck, the North East of England and England, who are eligible for free school meals is published annually.

Data for 2016 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016

Data for 2015 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015

Data for 2014 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014

In each publication data showing the proportion of children eligible for free school meals in England can be found in table 3a. The proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals in the North East of England can be found in tables 8a, 8b, 8c and 8d.

The proportion of pupils attending schools in Wansbeck who are eligible for free school meals can be found in the underlying data.