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This is not a false economy; it is what a good society should do, and a direct and easy way in which the Government can help poor kids and help our health system. We all know what happens when children get fat—they turn into fat adults, then they cost the NHS much more money over the long run and over the years. Feeding Britain, of which I am proud to be the chair, runs many of these schemes, so we see at first hand every day the pressure that comes on to families round about now, when they start to look at what is going to happen in the school summer holidays. They are approaching a serious cliff edge in what they are going to do with their kids and how they are going to feed them.