Primary Education: Free School Meals
(asked on 4th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the provision of universal free school meals for children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.
This question was answered on 16th March 2020
?A key success measure for Universal Infant Free School Meals is take-up of the meal, which has been consistently strong. We monitor this through the schools census. 1.4 million infants receive a free meal through this programme which is a take-up rate of 87%.