Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many children received free school meals as part of the universal free school meals programme in the constituency of Richmond Park in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
4,519 pupils in Richmond Park constituency received a free school meal as part of the universal infant free school meals programme in January 2016.
4,453 pupils received a free school meal as part of the universal infant free school meals programme in January 2015.
Universal infant free school meals were introduced in September 2014, therefore data for earlier years do not exist.