Question follow-through · 41032
Free School Meals: Primary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary schools with breakfast provision supported under the National School Breakfast Programme are located in the 10% most deprived wards in England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary schools with breakfast provision supported under the National School Breakfast Programme are located in the 10% most deprived wards in England.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
As of February 2025, 341 (21%) of primary schools taking part in the National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP) are in the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. Around 22% of primary schools in the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England were t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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