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Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Walsall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on the delivery of the Holiday Activities and Food programme in Walsall Borough of incorporating funding for that programme into the Children, Fam

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
3 Sept 2026
Answer
8 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on the delivery of the Holiday Activities and Food programme in Walsall Borough of incorporating funding for that programme into the Children, Fam

  2. 3 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    Holiday activities and food (HAF) programme funding, including the local authority capacity support funding, is now part of the wider children’s, youth and families grant, which is delivered through the Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS), in line ...

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