Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, further to his oral contribution of 26 March 2018, Official Report, column 505, when his Department plans to publish the evidential basis on which 50,000 more children would be eligible for free school meals.

We have published an explanation of the methodology by which we calculated the figures published in our consultation response on free school meals eligibility, which you can find at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-meals-technical-analysis-note.