Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many more infant school children in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency will be eligible for free school meals as a result of the extension of free school meals to all infant school children.
From September 2014 all infant pupils in state-funded schools in England will be eligible for a free, healthy school meal. Across England, we estimate that this means that 1.5 million additional pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2 will become eligible for a free school meal. We do not hold estimates of the numbers that will become newly eligible at constituency level.