Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school children receive free school meals in (a) Camberwell and Peckham and (b) the London Borough of Southwark.

The most recent figures for number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals come from the school census for January 2019, published on 27 June 2019. 2,658 pupils in primary schools in Camberwell and Peckham constituency were eligible for and claiming free school meals in January 2019, and 5,732 primary school pupils in the whole of the London Borough of Southwark.

Further information can be found in the annual “School, pupils and their characteristics” statistical release which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.

Figures relating to January 2020 are due to be published on 25 June 2020.