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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) Compared to other schools, faith-selective schools admit fewer children eligible for free school meals - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) school meals, according to the Sutton Trust; fewer children in care, according to the Office of the - Speech Link
3: None Indeed, according to the IPPR, a think tank, children on free school meals are five times more likely - Speech Link
4: Baroness Morris of Yardley (Lab - Life peer) For example, it does not matter whether they are an academy, a maintained school, a faith school, a free - Speech Link
5: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) We know that children from disadvantaged backgrounds and on free school meals are more likely to have - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer) If anybody—a parent, a pupil or school—were to have a complaint about the work of the ISI, they would - Speech Link
2: None or an academy school. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con - Life peer) For children with special needs, the Lighthouse School in Leeds, the first special free school, has supported - Speech Link
4: Lord Sewell of Sanderstead (Con - Life peer) There were also rigorous school improvement methods—no school was allowed to fail Ofsted. - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Should we insist that every primary school pupil should have swimming lessons and be able to swim 25 - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) Importantly, over 50% of the students are eligible for the pupil premium and the admission policy prioritised - Speech Link
2: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) This maintained school is doing a really good job”. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) No longer will a failing maintained school automatically join a strong MAT. - Speech Link
4: None into a maintained school. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Early Education and Childcare - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) We announced the largest ever increase in the early years pupil premium, and a £75 million early years - Speech Link
2: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) eligible for free school meals can make a real difference and help to ensure that every child gets the - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) We have also announced the largest increase in the early years pupil premium since its introduction, - Speech Link
4: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) In just one year, up to 2,970 more children will receive free school meals in Exeter. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) school meals from September next year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) I had free school meals and free school uniforms, and I had the opportunity to go to university without - Speech Link
2: Luke Myer (Lab - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) school meals, roll out free breakfast clubs and establish the child poverty taskforce. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) school meals for half a million more children, and opened free breakfast clubs. - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I strongly congratulate the Astrogazers team and the school in my hon. - Speech Link
3: Mike Reader (Lab - Northampton South) East Hunsbury primary school in my constituency has been named the kindest school in Britain. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Friend in congratulating the kindest school in the country, which is in his constituency. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Early Years Providers: Government Support - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Michelle Welsh (Lab - Sherwood Forest) Almost 2.2 million children are on free school meals—just over one in four children in England. - Speech Link
2: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) The extension of free childcare to younger children has huge potential, and I welcome two new school-based - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) We have delivered the biggest uplift in the early years pupil premium on record, opened new breakfast - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Half of our children on free school meals miss that important milestone, and this injustice is fuelled - Speech Link
2: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) I agree in principle with much of what is being proposed today, but as with free school meals and the - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) We are doubling the early years pupil premium, creating more places in school-based nurseries and ensuring - Speech Link
4: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) That link is why I was proud that we announced a big expansion to free school meals to make sure that - Speech Link
5: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) That is why we are expanding free school meals eligibility, putting in place new free breakfast clubs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) The winds of fortune are there already on the first day of school—a gale at the backs of some; a blizzard - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) Last year, we launched free online child development training to support early years educators working - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) From next year, we will provide additional funding to extend the early years pupil premium in areas most - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) school meals to half a million children. - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) That is why we are delivering the largest ever uplift to the early years pupil premium, boosting family - Speech Link
3: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) That is why we are expanding access to free school meals to more than half a million children, which - Speech Link