Free School Meals: Bury St Edmunds

(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children living in Bury St Edmunds constituency have been eligible to receive free school meals in each of the last six years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 25th July 2016

The number of pupils attending schools in Bury St Edmunds and known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in each of the last six years is given in the table below:

Year

Number of Pupils on Roll

Number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming FSM

% of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming FSM

January 2011

17,436

1,328

7.6

January 2012

17,412

1,365

7.8

January 2013

17,270

1,515

8.8

January 2014

17,294

1,716

9.9

January 2015

17,510

1,618

9.2

January 2016

17,360

1,508

8.7

This information has been calculated from the underlying data of the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release[1] for each corresponding year.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers

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