House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 18 May 2006 (pt 0005)

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Maintained secondary
	Number on roll ^{( 2)}	Number of pupils taking free school meals ^{( 3)}	Percentage of pupils taking free school meals	Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals	Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals
1993	66,944	4,663	7.0	5,724	8.6
1994	68,235	5,307	7.8	6,561	9.6
1995	69,099	5,434	7.9	6,788	9.8
1996	70,032	5,460	7.8	6,845	9.8
1997	70,682	5,072	7.2	6,570	9.3
1998	71,718	4,557	6.4	6,140	8.6
1999	72,916	4,248	5.8	5,802	8.0
2000	74,603	4,322	5.8	5,725	7.7
2001	75,824	4,074	5.4	5,605	7.4
2002	76,831	3,818	5.0	5,167	6.7
2003	78,350	4,047	5.2	5,122	6.5
2004	79,296	4,278	5.4	5,327	6.7
2005	79,638	4,332	5.4	5,344	6.7
2006 (provisional)	80,324	4,473	5.6	5,244	6.5

England
	Maintained primary
	Number on roll ^{( 2)}	Number of pupils taking free school meals ^{( 3)}	Percentage of pupils taking free school meals	Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals	Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals
1993	4,165,310	768,780	18.5	916,070	22.0
1994	4,241,670	810,650	19.1	949,790	22.4
1995	4,312,070	810,750	18.8	956,500	22.2
1996	4,389,310	823,530	18.8	974,280	22.2
1997	4,428,620	771,780	17.4	938,540	21.2
1998	4,460,130	727,840	16.3	886,070	19.9
1999	4,460,170	686,840	15.4	848,170	19.0
2000	4,435,340	668,180	15.1	816,990	18.4
2001	4,406,190	628,510	14.3	779,310	17.7
2002	4,363,270	613,560	14.1	750,590	17.2
2003	4,309,780	601,900	14.0	727,630	16.9
2004	4,254,210	605,840	14.2	737,220	17.3
2005	4,205,670	565,830	13.5	713,680	17.0
2006 (provisional)	4,151,970	553,560	13.3	667,180	16.1

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	Maintained secondary
	Number on roll ^{( 2)}	Number of pupils taking free school meals ^{( 3)}	Percentage of pupils taking free school meals	Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals	Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals
1993	2,960,830	338,190	11.4	472,350	16.0
1994	2,929,350	370,160	12.6	517,110	17.7
1995	2,988,950	387,550	13.0	539,440	18.0
1996	3,006,940	399,620	13.3	550,900	18.3
1997	3,036,990	381,240	12.6	552,900	18.2
1998	3,069,030	367,800	12.0	537,070	17.5
1999	3,118,280	367,800	11.8	527,340	16.9
2000	3,178,000	368,300	11.6	523,630	16.5
2001	3,226,970	353,470	11.0	509,680	15.8
2002	3,260,930	354,260	10.9	486,350	14.9
2003	3,308,490	349,780	10.6	478,920	14.5
2004	3,326,800	351,380	10.6	477,290	14.3
2005	3,317,590	335,140	10.1	465,520	14.0
2006 (provisional)	3,310,030	328,640	9.9	448,610	13.6
⁽¹⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed. ⁽²⁾ Prior to 2003 includes dually registered pupils and excludes boarding pupils; from 2003 onwards includes dually registered pupils and boarding pupils. ⁽³⁾ Based upon school level numbers of pupils who had a free school meal on the census day in January. n/a = not available—Southend figures included within Essex local authority prior to 1999. National pupil numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10 Source: Annual Schools Census