Question follow-through · 19891
Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Children in Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional cost to the public purse of expanding the automatic eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to include all care-experienced children, incl
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the additional cost to the public purse of expanding the automatic eligibility criteria for the Holiday Activities and Food programme to include all care-experienced children, incl
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The government recognises that care-experienced children, including children who are looked after, living in kinship care or adopted, can face additional challenges.The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, backed by over £600 million of funding fo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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