Question follow-through · 18921

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with local authorities on the future of the Holiday Activities and Food programme after March 2025.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
12 Dec 2024
Answer
18 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had recent discussions with local authorities on the future of the Holiday Activities and Food programme after March 2025.

  2. 12 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The department has received its overall budget and we are now working through the details of the budget settlement. Departmental budgets for 2025/26 will be confirmed in due course, including the exact funding available for this type of support for childr...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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