Primary Education: Free School Meals
(asked on 24th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school pupils received a free school meal in England in 2017.
This question was answered on 4th June 2018
The number of pupils in state-funded primary schools taking a free school meal on census day in January 2017 was 536,650.
The number and proportion of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals, as well as those taking a free school meal on census day, are published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.