School Holidays (Meals and Activities) Bill Debate

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Department: Department for Education

School Holidays (Meals and Activities) Bill

Kevin Foster Excerpts
2nd reading: House of Commons
Friday 19th January 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nadhim Zahawi Portrait Nadhim Zahawi
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I thank the right hon. Gentleman for dealing with this issue through an evidence-led strategy. He agrees with the Government that we need to conduct the research and the pilots in order to understand what is happening.

Kevin Foster Portrait Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con)
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I can give some evidence of Conservative support for this work. How will the pilots be selected? Will it be done on a local authority basis?

Nadhim Zahawi Portrait Nadhim Zahawi
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It is early days. We are currently considering how we will conduct the research, and when we have conducted that research we will, hopefully, be able to tell the House how we will conduct the pilots.