Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 24634

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

Tabled: 17 January 2025
Answered: 27 January 2025

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

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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 Morgan
The 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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