Free School Meals: Eligibility
(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many families would be better off reducing their income to less than £7,400 a year to secure free school meals.
This question was answered on 2nd February 2018
The information requested is not held centrally. The government recently held a public consultation on setting a net earnings threshold under universal credit to determine a household’s eligibility for free school meals. Under our proposals, we estimate that by 2022 around 50,000 more children will benefit from a free school meal compared to the previous benefits system.