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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 14 Sep 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) and giving over half a million more children free school meals. - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Government-funded childcare, free school meals and free breakfast clubs. - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) I welcome the announcements on school meals, but given that young campaigners at Bite Back last week - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Education and Skills Reform - Wed 09 Sep 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) meals, so will there be new funding attached to the reforms? - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I do want to pay tribute to teachers and school leaders right across the country. - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The Minister with responsibly for school estates, my hon. - Speech Link
4: Rosie Wrighting (Lab - Kettering) receive their results after going through a journey of improvement at the school. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Infants, Parents and Carers Bill
2nd reading - Fri 04 Sep 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) school meals, which I know she strongly supports, and the pupil premium for the most disadvantaged children - Speech Link
2: Michelle Welsh (Lab - Sherwood Forest) It does not suddenly appear when a child starts secondary school. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) food or free school meals or special educational needs, or in this case through all the work she has - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills, Vocational Training, and Further and Higher Education - Thu 03 Sep 2026
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Morgan of Huyton (Lab - Life peer) About 1.25 million white British pupils are eligible for free school meals, of whom only just over a - Speech Link
2: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) The report from Teach First showed how children from free school meal backgrounds were pretty much doomed - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) These are not selected children—40% of them come from free school meals backgrounds.It can be done, including - Speech Link
4: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) We should extend pupil premium-style support into post-16 education so that disadvantage does not stop - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Post-16 Education and Skills: Funding - Thu 02 Jul 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Life peer) School budgets have already been squeezed by national insurance rises and, as the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) My Lords, one way for schools and colleges to get the funding they need is through the pupil premium, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 22 Jun 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Olivia Bailey (Lab - Reading West and Mid Berkshire) We will publish the new standards in September alongside our record expansion of free school meals, driving - Speech Link
2: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) in particular and our huge expansion of free school meals, we have committed more than £1 billion of - Speech Link
3: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) Schools receive service pupil premium funding to address challenges including mobility and family separation - Speech Link
4: Ian Roome (LD - North Devon) ensure that funding for school meals is sustained and that procurement supports healthy, fresh and local - Speech Link
5: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) school meals, ensuring that all families in receipt of universal credit will now benefit. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Thu 18 Jun 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) This is because under the present system, families must apply for free school meals. - Speech Link
2: Lord Babudu (Lab - Life peer) A child eligible for free school meals is already five months behind by the time they start school. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
School Admissions: Selective Inclusion - Mon 08 Jun 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) which found that the top 500 secondary schools admit a lower proportion of pupils eligible for both free - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) premium, to adopt more inclusive admission arrangements. - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) school meals, rather than SEND pupils as a whole. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) pupil numbers reflects demographic change across the whole school system. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children: Development of Essential Skills - Tue 02 Jun 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Peter Swallow (Lab - Bracknell) Embedding oracy into the curriculum and into school-wide teaching can be a significant driver of the - Speech Link
2: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) Will the Minister extend pupil premium funding to disadvantaged young people aged 16 to 18, so they can - Speech Link
3: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) When children start school, early communication and language skills make a huge difference. - Speech Link
4: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) School has to be unmissable, and as my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Apr 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) nursery, of brilliant schools such as the new Thomas Telford primary free school, and of the great further - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Many constituents have contacted me about the benefits of having more and better vegetarian school meals - Speech Link