Question follow-through · 47099

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is her Department's policy on the renewal of the holiday activities food programme beyond the 2025-26 financial year.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
24 Apr 2025
Answer
2 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is her Department's policy on the renewal of the holiday activities food programme beyond the 2025-26 financial year.

  2. 24 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 May 2025

    Answer published

    The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme supports disadvantaged children and their families with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new things, improving socialisation and benefitting their health and well...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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