Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to monitor the use by Magic Breakfast of monies received from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived; and what assessment her Department has made of how, where and when the assistance for school pupils resulting from this funding has been distributed.

The Department for Education’s current contract with Magic Breakfast does not include monies from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).

Magic Breakfast are contracted to set up and run sustainable breakfast clubs in 184 schools where the free school meal take up is 35% or higher. This contract runs until March 2016. The prospective FEAD funding is separate, and we are currently exploring options for the use of the funding to support the establishment of additional breakfast clubs in deprived areas.