Free School Meals: Leeds North West

(asked on 9th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the number pupils that will be entitled to free school meals in Leeds North West constituency as a result of his Department's proposals to change the threshold for eligibility for free school meals eligibility under universal credit.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 14th March 2018

The department has not made constituency-level forecasts of the number of pupils that will be entitled to free school meals under the new criteria. At a national level, it is estimated that by 2022 around 50,000 more children will benefit from a free school meal compared to the previous benefits system.

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