Pupil Premium

(asked on 7th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the criteria will be for eligibility for the pupil premium after the roll-out of universal credit has been completed.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 13th November 2017

Pupil premium eligibility comprises those pupils who currently claim free school meals, those who have done so at any point in the last six years and pupils who are in the care of a local councils, or who left care through adoption or other formal routes. These criteria will not be directly affected by Universal Credit, though the underlying free school meal criteria will change.

My department is working with DWP to establish new criteria for determining entitlement to benefits-related free school meals as the roll-out of Universal Credit progresses. No decision has been taken yet, and our proposals on this matter will be announced in due course.

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