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...