Question follow-through · 66468
School Meals: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the school meals funding rate in England to match the rate in Scotland.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the school meals funding rate in England to match the rate in Scotland.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 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. This ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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