Hugh Bayley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) England received free school meals in 1995-96 and in each year since.

Mr David Laws

Information on the number and percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in York local authority, North Yorkshire local authority, Yorkshire and the Humber region and England for 2002 to 2014 has been placed in the Library of the House.

Comparable data for earlier years are not available.