Question follow-through · 53041
Free School Meals: Newcastle 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
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
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
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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