Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils have been in receipt of universal infant free school meals since its introduction.

This information is in the public domain and for every year since 2015 the number of infant pupils who took a free school meal on census day is published (in Table 3d) in the below National tables:

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

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

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