To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2010, Official Report, column 1088W, on free school meals: mathematics, if he will provide the information from the earliest year in the last 30 years for which data relating to ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals is available. (318420)

Full information for the whole cohort of A-level students is not available, because the information comes from two distinct sources. The information the Department has readily available is for schools.

In the 2002-03 academic year, the number of white males eligible for free school meals attending maintained¹ schools and non maintained special schools who achieved an A grade in GCE A-Level further mathematics was less than five. The number of white females eligible for free school meals attending maintained¹ schools and non-maintained special schools who achieved an A grade in GCE A-level further mathematics was also less than five. The exact figures cannot be given to preserve confidentiality.

¹ Maintained Schools including City Technology Colleges