Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Jim Cunningham Excerpts
Monday 9th September 2019

(5 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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I assure my hon. Friend that we will be writing to him in due course with full details of the national funding formula—we hope this will be in early October—and the impact this will have on individual schools .

Jim Cunningham Portrait Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
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T4. As a result of the introduction of universal credit in Coventry, 25,000 children are below the poverty line. What is the Secretary of State doing, or what are other Ministers doing, to fund school meals properly—not just in the holiday period, but generally?

Kemi Badenoch Portrait Mrs Badenoch
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I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. There are 50,000 more pupils eligible for free school meals at the moment. There is much that this Government are doing, and we will continue to look at ways in which we can improve circumstances for disadvantaged children.