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Tuesday 6th May 2014

Asked by: Tobias Ellwood (Conservative - Bournemouth East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial provision he is making available to schools in Bournemouth for expansion of kitchens to provide free school meals for under sevens.

Answered by David Laws

The Department for Education is providing £150 million capital funding in the 2014-15 financial year to enhance school kitchen and dining facilities across England. From this, Bournemouth Borough Council was allocated £307,007 capital funding for its maintained and voluntary aided schools, and academies in Bournemouth were able to bid to the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund. In addition, Bournemouth Borough Council has been allocated £1.6 million in general schools capital maintenance funding, and is free to draw on that to improve kitchen facilities if that is a priority locally.

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