AQW 2521/22-27

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 30/06/2022
Answered On Date: 19/07/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how many children across Northern Ireland are in receipt of free school meals.

Answer:

The Education Authority has confirmed that at 30 June there were 102,577 children entitled to free schools meals.

This is broken down as follows:

Nursery Age - 4,213

Primary Age - 54,032

Post Primary Age (School Pupils) - 43,036

FE Students - 1,296

Total 102,577