Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will announce funding for a multi-year extension to the Holiday activities and food programme.

The government recently announced over £200 million funding for the holiday activities and food (HAF) programme for 2025/26.

The HAF programme has been delivered nationally by local authorities in England since 2022, to provide healthy meals, enriching activities and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefitting their health, wellbeing and learning.

Funding beyond March 2026 will be subject to the multi-year Spending Review taking place later this year.