Question follow-through · 47208
Universal Credit: Free School Meals and Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Universal Credit system to automatically register eligible households for (a) free school meals and (b) the NHS Healthy Start sche
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of using the Universal Credit system to automatically register eligible households for (a) free school meals and (b) the NHS Healthy Start sche
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
No such assessment has been made. The Universal Credit system permits Department of Health and Social Care to check a citizen’s entitlement to Healthy Start vouchers, and Department for Education to check eligibility for Free School Meals.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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