Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of children who frequently turn up to school not having eaten breakfast.

I am sorry but the department does not collect this data.

We know how important it is for pupils to get a good start in the morning and eat a healthy breakfast. We are investing in a breakfast club programme as announced in the Childhood Obesity Plan in August 2016. This committed £10 million a year of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy to expand breakfast club provision in up to 1,600 schools. Further details of the programme will be announced in due course.