Children: Disadvantaged

(asked on 21st April 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children in households whose income is below the threshold for receiving free school meals; and how many such children have at least one parent who is a national from another EEA member state.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 29th April 2016

In January 2015 there were 1,198,494 children known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals. All these children were in households whose income was below the threshold for receiving free school meals.

We do not hold any information on the nationality of the parents of these children.

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