Free School Meals: Migrants

(asked on 23rd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2021 to Question 88857 on Free School Meals: Migrants, when he expects his Department’s evaluation of access to free school meals for families with no recourse to public funds to be completed.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 29th March 2022

The department will be extending free school meal (FSM) eligibility to children from all groups with no recourse to public funds (NRPF). More information on this can be found in written statement HCWS714, available here: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-03-24/hcws714.

Information on the number of children who received a free meal, and attracted pupil premium funding under the temporary extension of FSM eligibility to some NRPF households in the 2021/22 financial year can be found in the third document here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022.

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