Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to maintain the number of children eligible for free school meals at approximately the same level in the context of the maturity of the universal credit rollout.

Free school meal support is available to households receiving Universal Credit, and with an annual earned income of £7,400 or less.

This government’s ambition is to drive down poverty through our Child Poverty Strategy and cross-government work to support more parents into employment and to increase their working hours.