Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that access to free school breakfasts for (a) secondary school pupils, (b) special schools and (c) alternative provision continues after the expiration of the National School Breakfast Programme in July 2025.

The government is committed to delivering on its pledge of breakfast clubs in every state funded school with primary aged pupils. We have made early progress toward this, including announcing that up to 750 early adopters will be delivering these new breakfast clubs from April 2025.

We remain committed to delivering the National School Breakfast Club Programme alongside the early adopters.

Officials are working closely with schools and sector experts to develop a new breakfast clubs programme that meets the needs of pupils, schools and parents. This includes consideration of how best to transition schools from existing to new arrangements. Further details will follow in due course.