Question follow-through · 58496
Free School Meals: Stoke-on-Trent South
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of auto-enrolling eligible children on to free school meals in Stoke-on-Trent South constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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- Food: Curriculum · 14 Nov 2025
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of auto-enrolling eligible children on to free school meals in Stoke-on-Trent South constituency.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
This government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and tackling child poverty. We have now announced that we are extending free school meals (FSM) to all children from households in receipt of Universal Credit from September 2026. It wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Food: Curriculum
14 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the National Curriculum adequately covers a) practical skills related to basic food preparation and nutrition and b) education on the origins of food and agric