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<p>Prior to the 2014/15 academic year, the department did not collect data on the
number of free school meals given out to pupils below school level. The department
does not, therefore, hold information on receipt of free school meals by pupils of
different ages for earlier years.</p><p>Data from the January 2015 school census at
regional and local authority level can be found in table 8e of ‘Schools, Pupils and
their Characteristics: January 2015 statistics’[1]. Constituency level data can be
obtained by aggregating the underlying school level data from the same publication.
This is available in the ‘SFR16_2015_Schools_Pupils_UD’ file within the underlying
data, which contains information on each school within constituencies and the number
of infant pupils who took a free school meal on census day.</p><br /><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015</a></p>
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