Written questions

Free School Meals: Newcastle Upon Tyne East and Wallsend

Commons · Question 53041 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 3 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Mary Glindon

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

Answered by Stephen Morgan, 3 Jun 2025

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...