Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 15 April 2013, Official Report, column 130W, if she will reproduce the information in that Answer for each year from 2012-13 to date.

The previous answer referred to in this question provided data on eligibility for free school meals in Barnsley Central constituency and local authorities in South Yorkshire in 2013. Information about the number and proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals in each local authority can be found in tables 8a, 8b and 8c of each of the ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics’ series of statistics for 2013[1], 2014[2] and 2015.[3]

Specific information about Barnsley Central constituency can be calculated from the school level underlying data of each of these three publications.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2013 - click on Local authority tables. For constituency level information, use underlying data file ‘School_level_schools_pupils_2013’. Column U contains the parliamentary constituency and column DP contains free school meal eligibility figures.

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014 - click on local authority tables. For constituency level information, use underlying data file ‘SFR15_2014_school_level_pupils_UD’. Column V contains the parliamentary constituency and column EC contains free school meal eligibility figures.

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015 - click on local authority tables. For constituency level information, use underlying data file ‘SFR16_2015_school_level_pupils_UD’. Column V contains the parliamentary constituency and column EC contains free school meal eligibility figures.