Question follow-through · 41615
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of index-linking all future funding with the Holiday Activities and Food Programme to ensure it (a) keeps pace with inflation and (b) continues to effe
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of index-linking all future funding with the Holiday Activities and Food Programme to ensure it (a) keeps pace with inflation and (b) continues to effe
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The government is committed to the holiday activities and food (HAF) programme and the impact it has on children, young people and families. The department is very pleased that the overall funding for the HAF programme in 2025/26 will again be more than £...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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