Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 24634
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
Tabled: 17 January 2025
Answered: 27 January 2025
Question
Dame Caroline Dinenage
Conservative — Gosport
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to extend the eligibility criteria for the Holiday activities and food programme.
Answer
Stephen MorganThe holiday activities and food (HAF) programme is aimed at children in receipt of benefits-related free school meals. However, local authorities have discretion to go beyond this as set out in the HAF guidance: “While the majority of funding that local a...
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