Cost of Living: Low Income Families with Children Debate
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Baroness Watkins of Tavistock
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Cost of Living: Low Income Families with Children
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Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con)
I accept that families are struggling and that some are desperate. We have tried to make the process of giving the money we are giving as simple and unbureaucratic as possible. That is why we are making the payments as we are, starting this week, I think. We hope to have them all done by the end of July.
Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB)
My Lords, can the Minister be precise about what families will get during the coming summer holidays, given that free school meals cease for most children next Friday?
Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con)
On free school meals, children will get what we have already announced. We are not proposing to increase free school meals rates to reflect rising inflation at the moment. They will get their holiday breakfast clubs and the support we have previously announced.