Free School Meals

(asked on 29th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendation in the National Food Strategy Part One report, published on 20 July, that free school meals should be extended to all children in families receiving Universal Credit.


Answered by
Baroness Berridge Portrait
Baroness Berridge
This question was answered on 11th August 2020

The government will carefully consider the findings of the National Food Strategy Part One?report and will be responding fully in due course.

Free school meals are an integral part of our provision for families on low incomes and our wider actions to promote social mobility. We are supporting around 1.4 million of the most disadvantaged children through free school meals, saving families around £400 a year. It is right that we are targeting our support towards those families that are most in need of it.

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