Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many recipients of free school meals there have been in Liverpool in each of the last 10 years.
The number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018.
For 2018, the number and percentage of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals by local authority can be found in Tables 8a to 8e, in the Schools pupils and their characteristics 2018 - LA tables of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2018’ statistical release.
Information for earlier years (from 2008 onwards) can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.