Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Oral Statement of 17 July 2017, Official Report, columns 563 to 566, on schools update, whether the £10 million ringfenced from the soft drinks industry levy revenue to provide breakfast clubs will be affected by changes to the funding levels available through the healthy pupils capital budget.

We announced within the Childhood Obesity Plan in August 2016 that we would launch a breakfast club programme using funds solely from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.

We published an invitation to tender on the 16 October 2017 indicating that we are investing £26 million from the levy over the next three years to expand breakfast club provision.

We have also invested £100 million from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy in the healthy pupils capital fund to facilitate an improvement in children’s physical and mental health by increasing and improving access to and use of relevant facilities, such as kitchens, dining facilities, changing rooms and sports facilities.