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Mr. Clay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the latest figures showing how many children take (a) school meals and (b) free school meals broken down into primary, secondary and special schools; and what proportion of children present they make up in each case.
Mr. Alan Howarth
The information requested for maintained schools in England for January 1989 is as follows:
| Total number of school meals provided | As a percentage of all pupils on roll | Total meals provided free | As a percentage of all pupils on roll | |
| Primary1 | 1,835,516 | 46 | 515,395 | 13 |
| Secondary | 1,104,875 | 38 | 235,270 | 8 |
| Special | 66,319 | 71 | 28,466 | 31 |
| 1 Includes nursery schools. | ||||