Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 3647

Free School Meals

Tabled: 30 August 2024
Answered: 9 September 2024

Question

Ben Maguire

Liberal DemocratNorth Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2024 to Question 627 on Free School Meals, if she will make it her policy to commission an assessment of the potential merits of broadening the eligibility criteria for childre

Answer

Stephen Morgan
The department has not made a formal assessment of the merits of broadening the free school meals (FSM) eligibility criteria. The department is committed to tackling the grave issue of child poverty, which has gone up by 700,000 since 2010, with over four...

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