Question follow-through · 18419
Free School Meals: Eligibility
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she take steps to delegate powers to local authorities to (a) identify and (b) automatically register all children eligible for free school meals.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she take steps to delegate powers to local authorities to (a) identify and (b) automatically register all children eligible for free school meals.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
There are currently around 2.1 million pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals (FSM). The department recognises the vital role played by FSM and encourages all eligible families to take up their entitlement. To make this as easy as possible the...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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