Question follow-through · 75297
Free School Meals
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of schools that have the budget to provide free school meals in the next 5 years in a) Somerset and (b) England.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 3 Oct 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of schools that have the budget to provide free school meals in the next 5 years in a) Somerset and (b) England.
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Oct 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member for Glastonbury and Somerton to the answer of 5 September 2025 to Question 71911.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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