Question follow-through · 26170

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will extend funding for the holiday activities and food programme beyond 21 March 2025.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
28 Jan 2025
Answer
28 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will extend funding for the holiday activities and food programme beyond 21 March 2025.

  2. 28 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for North Durham to the answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 24633.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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