Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many families in Eastbourne would be entitled to free school meals under the pre-universal credit free school meals system.

We don’t differentiate between pupils eligible for free school meals under the pre-universal credit free school meals system and those only eligible due to the universal credit free school meals system. The number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals is published in the file “Underlying data: SFR28/2017” in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release. For 2017 the information can be found at:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.

Information for earlier years can be found at:

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