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Pupil Premium: Eligibility

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether children who become eligible for free school meals in 2026 will also be eligible for pupil premium funding.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jun 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether children who become eligible for free school meals in 2026 will also be eligible for pupil premium funding.

  2. 2 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Pupil premium funding is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:Pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals (FSM), or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM),Children previously looked aft...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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