Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of people entering higher education by age 19 in (a) 2018-19 and (b) each of the last five academic years were eligible for free school meals in (i) St Helens North constituency, (ii) the North West and (iii) England.

The department publishes information at a national level on the proportion of students who entered higher education by age 19 who were eligible for free school meals at age 15 in state-funded and special schools.

The latest figures for England can be found in Table 1 here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/757901/WP2018-MainTables.xlsx.

Figures are not available at regional or parliamentary constituency level.