Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England provide a breakfast club.

The department is investing up to £26 million into the National Schools Breakfast Programme, using funds from Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. A contract was awarded to Family Action in March 2018 and will run until March 2020. Family Action, in partnership with Magic Breakfast, have both been named as the leading charities responsible for running the Breakfast Club programme. Together they have set up or improved more than 1,700 breakfast clubs across the country.

The department’s breakfast club provision is one of a number of available programmes open to schools. Across England there are a number of independent schemes already in operation either run by schools themselves or in partnership with charities and organisations such as Kellogg’s and Greggs.

The department does not collect figures on the total number of breakfast clubs in operation outside of our programme.