Question follow-through · 59499
School Transport: Eligibility
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the announced expansion to Free School Meals eligibility will affect eligibility for Free School Transport.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the announced expansion to Free School Meals eligibility will affect eligibility for Free School Transport.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2025
Answer published
100,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by the end of this Parliament, through the extension of free school meals (FSM) to all households on Universal Credit. Children who meet the new, higher threshold for FSM from September 2026 will not automati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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