Breakfast Clubs: Finance

(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department provides to support breakfast clubs in England; how many (a) schools that funding is allocated to and (b) children that funding covers; what the cost per child of that funding was in each year since that funding was introduced; and what plans the Government has for that funding after March 2021.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 19th November 2020

The department is investing up to £35 million into the National School Breakfast Programme. This includes our extension of the programme by a further year until March 2021, with up to £11.8 million being invested during the current 2020-21 financial year. Overall, this money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in up to 2,450 schools in disadvantaged areas, making them sustainable in the long run.

Our supplier Family Action has estimated that 280,000 pupils, in more than 1,800 schools, had access to a healthy nutritious breakfast every school day between March 2018 to March 2020. Over this period the government spent £23,672,238.23. More information can be found here: https://www.family-action.org.uk/content/uploads/2019/07/NSBP-Impact-report-v11-LOWRES.pdf.

The government is considering how it can support breakfast clubs beyond March 2021 and recently issued a Prior Information Notice to gather evidence in relation to future policy and delivery for breakfast clubs. Future spending remains subject to the Spending Review.

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