Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of students eligible for free school meals have taken A-level design and technology in each of the last five years.

The Department does not hold information on free school meal (FSM) eligibility for students at the end of A-Level.

The number of students entered for design & technology and computing A levels at the end of A-Level study is published according to their FSM eligibility at school 3 years previously in the underlying data of the ‘A level attainment by pupil characteristics’ transparency data^[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics