Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that children have access to healthy meals during the school summer holidays when free school meals are not provided.
The department is investing over £600 million in the holiday activities and food programme over the next three years. Children who are in receipt of free school meals are eligible for a place on the holiday activities and food programme, free of charge. This is being delivered in all 152 local authorities in England and ensures that disadvantaged children have access to healthy food and enriching activities during the longer school holiday periods.