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Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of making all children from families that receive Universal Credit eligible for free school meals.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 25 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 27 Nov 2024
Answer: 2 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of making all children from families that receive Universal Credit eligible for free school meals.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
The new government has a central mission to break down barriers to opportunity for every child.The government has inherited a trend of rising child poverty and widening attainment gaps for children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers. Chi...

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Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Natural History: GCSE

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Writing

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Down's Syndrome

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve further education opportunities for people with Down syndrome.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Learning Disability: Work Experience

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that people with learning disabilities can access work experience opportunities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Learning Disability: Work Experience

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that people with learning disabilities are able to access as many work experience opportunities as people without learning disabilities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Finance

12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17084 on Schools: Per Capita Costs, how much and what proportion of the additional funding will be used for pay increases already awarded to teachers in th

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Per Capita Costs

12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17084 on Schools: Per Capita Costs, if she will provide these figures adjusted for inflation by the (a) retail price index and (b) consumer price index.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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3 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release entitled One of the largest mental health trials launches in schools, published on 4 February 2019, what the results of those trials were.

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Private Education: Fees and Charges

3 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the average fees charged by independent schools for the term starting in (a) January 2024, (b) September 2024 and (c) January 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Admissions

3 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is collecting data on trends in the number of in-year school applications in each local authority area.