Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Nash on 28 July (HL Deb, cols 1416–19), what is the proportion of children receiving free school meals in (1) academies, (2) free schools, and (3) maintained schools.

Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014’ Statistical First Release.[1] Table 3b contains the proportion of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in state-funded schools by phase. Table 3c contains the proportion of pupils eligible and claiming free school meals in each type of academy and free school.

The relevant tables have been placed in the library of the House.

[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014