Question follow-through · 60882
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of automatically enrolling eligible children for free school meals.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of automatically enrolling eligible children for free school meals.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
All children in households in receipt of Universal Credit will be eligible for free school meals (FSM) from September 2026. This unprecedented step will put £500 back into families’ pockets in respect of each child each year and lift 100,000 children acro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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