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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


Commons Chamber
Department for Education - Tue 24 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) I welcome the investment for our teachers, school buildings, free school meals and SEND support, but - Speech Link
2: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) I support the Government’s aim to expand funded childcare and the provision of free school meals, but - Speech Link
3: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) One school I spoke to was expecting 67p per child for non-pupil premium children and 88p for pupil premium - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) will now lose access to pupil premium funding, as well as home-to-school transport. - Speech Link
5: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Members have welcomed the expansion of free school meals and the introduction of free breakfast clubs.I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None school meals and pupil premium funding.(4) The review and report required under this section must be - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) school meals currently brings the pupil premium with him or her to the school for education purposes - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) There may also be stigma around free school meals. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Healthy nutritious food and free school meals for every pupil eligible will hugely aid the learning and - Speech Link
5: None Pupil premium funding entitlements will continue to be based on the existing free school meals threshold - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I think that when it comes to free school meals or school meals—on a later group I am going to say that - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) school meals, eligibility for the pupil premium and inclusion on the Income Deprivation Affecting Children - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) meals, with the costs covered by the pupil premium income that a school receives. - Speech Link
4: None premium, as it is used to fund a lot of the provision at the moment for pupils on free school meals. - Speech Link
5: None a day attending breakfast club; 78p per pupil for schools with free school meals 6-eligible pupils, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Andrew Lewin (Lab - Welwyn Hatfield) funding, not least because one in three children attending Swallow Dell is eligible for free school - Speech Link
2: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Lady that in addition to almost doubling the early years pupil premium, we put in place a £75 million - Speech Link
3: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab - Smethwick) school meals will build on the Government’s brilliant work to tackle pupil absence? - Speech Link
4: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) In April, I wrote to the Minister for School Standards about the Angel Hill free school, which will provide - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spending Review 2025 - Thu 12 Jun 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Chichester (Bshp - Bishops) While on the surface, the increased access to free school meals is welcome, could the Minister reassure - Speech Link
2: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) He talked about child poverty and he knows that—as the Prime Minister described it—our free school meals - Speech Link