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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) We cannot have an expectation of a phone-free school day, an inspection regime that means that, even - Speech Link
2: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Children eligible for free school meals or with special education needs are far more likely to be excluded - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Around 45% of these pupils were eligible for free school meals and 28% had special educational needs. - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Acton (Con - Life peer) At the Free Speech Union, we have come across numerous examples of school safeguarding policies being - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) from other key stakeholders, will provide schools with guidance on whole-school approaches to pupil - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day of Education - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) They clubbed together to secretly put school supplies on the student’s bed to help him through school - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Elim church has built a hospital, a health centre, a primary school and a secondary school, and it - Speech Link
3: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) hours a week, and tripling the early years pupil premium to £1,000 a year.We want a Government who fulfil - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) That is why we have put 750 primary breakfast clubs in place and extended free school meals to half a - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Call for General Election - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Democracy is fundamental to any free and functioning country. Every hon. - Speech Link
2: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) On education, a quarter of children in my constituency are on free school meals—significantly above the - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) budget.There are also the free school meals and breakfast clubs—but who is paying for them? - Speech Link
4: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) Breakfast clubs are feeding children for free before school, youth hubs are opening, children are being - Speech Link
5: Lisa Smart (LD - Hazel Grove) get it through the pupil premium. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Free School Meals - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I thank the Government very much for extending the remit of free school meals—that is excellent - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) It is up to schools to determine how they procure their free school meals, although I recognise that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Village Schools - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) For many villages, the school is part of the fabric of rural life. - Speech Link
2: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) I welcome the steps the Government have taken to increase the school budget, expand free school meals - Speech Link
3: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) places and manage the school estate efficiently. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Creative Education - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) The less creativity there is at a school, the less likely the teachers are capable of teaching it. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2025 - Thu 04 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) Combined with other steps we have already taken, including extending free school meals to more families - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) Will it be the case that universal free school meals will encourage people to work more hours? - Speech Link
3: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) They are expected to fund breakfast clubs, free school meals and teacher pay awards—not with new investment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Whether it is the extension of the soft drinks industry levy, free school meals, a warm home discount - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) We want to see more support for young carers in school by introducing a young carers pupil premium. - Speech Link
3: Antonia Bance (Lab - Tipton and Wednesbury) breakfast clubs and free school meals. - Speech Link
4: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) breakfast clubs, including at Penn Fields school in my constituency, as well as free school meals, will - Speech Link
5: Jessica Toale (Lab - Bournemouth West) school meals and free breakfast clubs, and reforming the planning system, along with investment in house - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Andrew Cooper (Lab - Mid Cheshire) Free breakfast clubs in every state-funded primary school will ensure no child starts the day hungry. - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) The attainment gap has narrowed, and children eligible for free school meals are now 50% more likely - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) school meals, but they subsequently decided to copy the policy and announced that they will introduce - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) I really welcome today’s statement on heating, with help for households; on eating, with school meals - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) Free school meals for all primary schoolchildren were subsequently rolled out across London, and we know - Speech Link
3: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab - Smethwick) We are seeing breakfast clubs and free school meals, along with more GPs and nurses. - Speech Link
4: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) Whether we are talking about Labour’s breakfast clubs, the free school meals provided by the Labour Mayor - Speech Link
5: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) school meals, opening free breakfast clubs in every primary school and investing in historic amounts - Speech Link