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Table 13: Pupils in education authority primary schools: Percentage of pupils present taking school meals (free or paid for), 2000 to 2009

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Aberdeen City

46.8

49.6

47.8

50.7

53.4

55.1

54.3

52.2

53.4

50.3

Aberdeenshire

55.6

53.5

54.6

53.8

51.3

52.4

52.6

53.1

53.5

56.9

Angus

35.1

43.7

36.1

39.4

38.5

42.7

43.2

46.6

48.9

53.1

Argyll & Bute

56.6

54.9

57.0

58.5

55.2

50.9

55.6

56.4

54.7

53.8

Clackmannanshire

47.4

51.1

49.8

48.6

42.6

37.7

37.9

39.2

41.6

43.5

Dumfries & Galloway

60.8

57.8

58.9

55.4

47.0

42.2

46.8

45.5

47.5

48.6

Dundee City

38.8

42.9

44.9

43.0

44.0

42.2

52.4

42.2

41.6

44.0

East Ayrshire (1)

40.7

43.3

44.0

46.4

45.4

44.4

44.7

43.4

51.9

40.7

East Dunbartonshire

45.4

39.8

42.7

38.9

38.7

36.6

37.6

37.2

35.0

38.2

East Lothian

45.3

45.3

45.2

45.7

45.1

39.5

41.1

36.3

40.1

36.9

East Renfrewshire

30.8

31.0

37.6

37.2

37.4

35.1

35.8

34.6

34.6

38.0

Edinburgh, City of

35.7

37.6

36.9

38.2

38.6

40.2

39.9

37.8

37.8

38.9

Eilean Siar

56.5

57.0

60.5

61.2

63.5

56.8

60.4

64.6

62.6

57.5

Falkirk

55.0

59.0

59.6

59.9

60.1

62.4

62.9

62.9

62.8

62.0

Fife (1)

46.7

46.2

51.0

48.5

46.3

45.5

45.9

44.4

60.9

48.3

Glasgow City (1)

60.7

61.7

63.0

65.0

65.7

62.6

59.8

56.8

64.8

58.8

Highland

38.6

39.9

43.4

44.6

46.0

41.6

43.3

45.4

43.3

55.5

Inverclyde

60.3

57.3

59.0

56.1

53.5

49.2

48.8

45.9

46.7

49.4

Midlothian

48.8

49.3

53.3

55.5

64.2

57.4

57.5

61.7

63.7

60.8

Moray

41.1

40.6

41.6

42.5

40.7

39.7

44.4

40.8

40.8

49.0

North Ayrshire

57.5

57.1

57.0

59.3

53.6

51.6

49.5

47.6

48.4

45.3

North Lanarkshire

35.3

42.6

44.9

44.3

43.3

42.4

44.4

46.2

45.7

48.5

Orkney Islands

71.5

80.8

80.4

77.7

78.7

80.0

76.6

76.9

75.9

76.3

Perth & Kinross

39.1

44.8

42.6

37.9

41.5

39.5

45.6

43.1

41.2

46.7

Renfrewshire

44.8

44.7

52.1

48.3

45.8

32.4

37.3

33.9

34.0

32.3

Scottish Borders (1)

39.6

39.1

37.8

33.3

35.1

34.6

38.3

33.1

49.6

39.1

Shetland Islands

88.7

88.5

89.1

90.5

88.1

87.6

87.2

87.4

83.9

83.9

South Ayrshire

50.6

49.4

50.5

53.2

48.1

48.4

45.6

47.2

49.4

49.5

South Lanarkshire

44.3

45.4

47.6

48.7

50.1

42.7

43.4

45.1

53.1

53.2

Stirling

49.5

46.4

47.3

48.0

44.9

44.7

40.0

33.1

32.1

31.6

West Dunbartonshire (1)

52.5

59.4

58.5

63.5

58.9

43.6

45.8

47.8

57.3

50.1

West Lothian

44.6

42.5

43.0

44.9

45.6

45.7

43.5

44.8

45.4

47.6

Grant Aided (2)

..

..

..

..

31.4

30.5

37.2

31.0

26.9

26.1

Scotland

47.0

48.2

49.6

49.6

48.9

46.5

47.3

46.3

49.6

48.9

Scotland minus trial authorities (3)

45.0

46.3

45.6

46.4

48.2

(1) Local authorities that took part in the trial of free school meals to all pupils in P1-P3 in 2007/08.

(2) Included in Glasgow prior to 2004

(3) Due to the effect the trail has had on national uptake rates, these have also been provided on the basis of authorities not taking part in the trial for the past five years (see background note 6).

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