Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 53041

Free School Meals: Newcastle Upon Tyne East and Wallsend

Tabled: 19 May 2025
Answered: 3 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Mary Glindon

LabourNewcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by The Sutton Trust entitled The Opportunity Index, published in May 2025, what steps she is taking to increase the proportion of free school meal pupils who become 50th percentile

Answer

Stephen Morgan
Through our work to deliver the Opportunity Mission, the department will break the link between young people’s backgrounds and their future success by tackling the underlying barriers that disadvantaged children face across the country, including in Newca...

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