Question follow-through · 6387
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to remove means-testing for families to access the holiday activities and food programme.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to remove means-testing for families to access the holiday activities and food programme.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
The eligibility for the holiday activities and food (HAF) programme in 2026 to 2027 continues to be children in receipt of benefits-related free school meals (FSM) up until September 2026 Local authorities will continue to have flexibility to use up to 15...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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