Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of children aged (1) zero to five, (2) six to 11, and (3) 12 to 16, from (a) low, (b) middle, and (c) high, income families are not living with both parents.

The information requested is not held centrally. The department does not collect or hold information on children’s living arrangements or the income of their families. The Office for National Statistics may hold some of this information.

Statistics on pupil attainment organised by entitlement for free school meals or are disadvantaged can be found in the following publications:

Key stage 2: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2.[1]

Key stage 4: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.[2]

16 to 18 study: For 2011/12 – 2015/16 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics.[3]

For 2016/17 - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised.[4]

[1] Select the ‘revised’ publication for each year, open the ‘national tables’ and navigate to the tables giving statistics by pupil characteristics.

[2] For 2011/12 – 2013/14, scroll halfway down the page and select the ‘GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics’ link and then open the ‘national and local authority tables’. For 2014/15 – 2016/17, select the ‘revised’ publications (at the top of the page) and open the ‘characteristic national tables’. Each of these has an initial table providing headline measures by each of the characteristics we publish.

[3] Select the ‘underlying data’ and navigate to the ‘FSM’ table for each year, figures for disadvantaged pupils were not published in these releases.

[4] Download the ‘A level exam results and A level and vocational participation csv’ (towards the bottom of the page) and open the ‘performance measures by characteristics’ file. You can then filter the data for FSM and disadvantage (columns E and F).