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Debate between Christian Matheson and Gillian Keegan
Monday 2nd March 2020

(4 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gillian Keegan Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Gillian Keegan)
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As my hon. Friend knows, the Government have announced increased funding for 16 to 19-year-olds of £400 million in 2020-21. That is the biggest injection of new money in a single year for a decade. As our manifesto made clear, there will be further investment in T-levels and further education college estates, and we will of course be looking again at further education funding as part of future spending reviews.

Christian Matheson Portrait Christian Matheson (City of Chester) (Lab)
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T3. Will Ministers review the operation of the free school meals cash card, because I believe that £2.30 a day is often not enough for the cost of the school meal? I also understand that the money is not roll-overable and Feeding Britain estimates that this means that £88 million went unspent in one year, when it should have been spent feeding children from low-income families.