Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 44883
Free School Meals: Finance
Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 22 April 2025
Question
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Labour — Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding for (a) free school meals and (b) universal infant free school meals to help source school meals from British produce.
Answer
Stephen MorganThe department spends approximately £1.5 billion annually on free lunches for 2.1 million school age pupils under benefits-based free school meals, over 90,000 disadvantaged students in further education, and around 1.3 million infant pupils under the Uni...
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