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Mr. Battle
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of state-educated pupils in (a) Leeds, West constituency and (b) Leeds Metropolitan district receive free school meals. [116189]
Mr. Stephen Twigg
The information requested is shown in the following table.
| Maintained schools: School meal arrangements | |||
| January 2003 (Provisional) | Number on roll | Day pupils1 Number known to be eligible for free school meals | Percentage known to be eligible for free school meals |
| Leeds, West parliamentary constituency | |||
| Primary2 | 7,702 | 2,009 | 26.1 |
| Secondary2 | 4,141 | 1,028 | 24.8 |
| Special3 | 186 | 67 | 36.0 |
| Pupil Referral Units | 26 | 13 | 50.0 |
| Leeds local education authority | |||
| Primary2 | 65,400 | 12,224 | 18.7 |
| Secondary2 | 47,806 | 8,085 | 16.9 |
| Special3 | 955 | 346 | 36.2 |
| Pupil Referral Units | 223 | 80 | 35.9 |
| 1 Excludes boarding pupils. | |||
| 2 Includes middle schools as deemed. | |||
| 3 Excludes non-maintained special schools. | |||
Source:
The Annual Schools Census