Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his 8 May 2019 press release entitled Free meals and activities for 50,000 children over 2019 summer holidays, how many unsuccessful bids for that funding were made by organisations based in the North East; what the value of those unsuccessful bids was; and what feedback his Department has given to organisations that made unsuccessful bids.

This year we received 13 bids from organisations in the North East for the Holiday Activities and Food programme funding. Of the 11 organisations selected for funding, 2 were based in the North East and more than £1.2 million was allocated to Street Games in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead Local Authority.

The value of the 11 unsuccessful bids from organisations in the North East was £5,625,109.45.

All of the unsuccessful organisations who requested feedback were provided with this in writing.