Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with no recourse to public funds are eligible for free school meals in (a) England (b) London and (c) Waltham Forest.

National level data on the number of children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and who attracted pupil premium funding, under what was previously a temporary extension of free school meal eligibility to some no recourse to public funds (NRPF) households, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023.

Due to the low number of FSM eligible children from NRPF households, the department is unable to provide the breakdown of figures requested, to protect these pupils from being identified.

When FSM eligibility was permanently extended to pupils from all households with NRPF in April 2022, the department ran a claims process which allowed schools to claim additional pupil premium funding for the 2022/23 financial year for pupils that had become eligible. This information will be captured in a subsequent data release.