Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 44884

Schools: Food

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 22 April 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Labour — Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ringfence school meal funding.

Answer

Stephen Morgan
The 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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