Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's press release, Funding boost to give more children healthy start to the day, published on 19th March 2018, whether the funding announced is additional to the £26 million of funding allocated for breakfast club provision in the tender published by his Department on 23 October 2017.

The funding announced on the 19 March 2018 reflects that stated in the breakfast club tender, which was published on the 23 October 2017. We are investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,770 schools, with a focus on increasing provision for disadvantaged pupils. This investment will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country – including the Department for Education’s Opportunity Areas. Further details about the funding split over the duration of the programme will be available in due course. We do not have an estimate of the number of children that will benefit from this funding as we do not yet know which schools will participate in the programme.