Question follow-through · 36463
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to make a decision on the extension of transitional protections for free school meal entitlements beyond 31 March 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Apr 2025 · 35 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to make a decision on the extension of transitional protections for free school meal entitlements beyond 31 March 2025.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Apr 2025
Answer published
The continued provision of school food has an important role to play in breaking the unfair link between background and opportunity, which is why the department is considering the government’s school food offer as part of our work on child poverty.As part...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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