Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 99145

Free School Meals

Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 6 January 2026

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

LabourPoole

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy that children who are eligible for free school meals should be automatically enrolled for them.

Answer

Olivia Bailey
The government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and tackling child poverty. Introducing a new eligibility threshold for free school meals (FSM) so that all children from households in receipt of Universal Credit will be eligible for F...

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