Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 44431

Free School Meals: Finance

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 22 April 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she next plans to review the per-meal funding rate for free school meals.

Answer

Stephen Morgan
The department spends over £1.5 billion annually on the provision of free and nutritious meals to 2.1 million of the most disadvantaged school pupils, 90,000 low-income students in further education, and 1.3 million infant pupils. In addition to this, eli...

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