Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school pupils were eligible for free school meals in each London borough in June (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014; and in the most recent months in 2015 for which figures are available.

Information on the number of pupils eligible for and claiming free schools meals in each local authority in London for January 2010 to 2015 is published in the “Statistics: schools and pupil numbers” series^[1]. This is based on the January School census.

A collated version of this information has been provided in the attached Excel spreadsheet.

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