Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the proportion of infant pupils in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne, (b) the North East and (c) England who would currently be entitled to receive free school meals under the pre-universal free school meals system.

The proportion of pupils eligible for, and claiming, free school meals under the pre-universal free school meals system is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.