Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency have received free school meals in each of the last five years.
The Department publishes annual figures on the number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals, based on school census data.
The most recently published figures are for January 2022. The full collection of publications can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers. The attached table provides information for Bexleyheath and Crayford from the 2017/18 to 2021/22 academic years.