Westminster Hall
Free School Meals - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) A free school meal can be life changing; its benefits are enormous.Extending free school meals offers - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) out on free school meals. - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) school meals programme was fully funded by the Government.Healthy free school meals impact on many aspects - Speech Link
4: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) Universal free school meals would obviously solve that. - Speech Link

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Open Petition since 13th March 2024

Address the shortfall in the payment allocated to schools for free school meals. - 75 Signatures

(Estimated Final Signatures: 110 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)

The amount paid to cover the cost of free meals is too low. We call for government to fund free school meals properly to ensure that our vulnerable pupils get a good meal without depriving them and their peers of other resources and staffing as schools stretch their budgets to cover the shortfall.

Found: School caterers have increased prices to cover rising costs.

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Westminster Hall
Free School Meals: Children with SEND - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) I have long been an advocate for free school meals for all. - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Free breakfast clubs and universal free school meals were at the heart of that. - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) The law places a duty on maintained schools, academies and free schools to provide free school meals - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) with a state-funded school and meet the eligibility criteria for free school meals. - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) The requirements for free school meals are clear, such that eligible children should receive their free - Speech Link

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Early Day Motion

Free school meals (20 Signatures)

27 Nov 2023
Tabled by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
That this House notes that free school meals ensure millions of children get a hot and healthy meal each day; is concerned that children whose families meet financial eligibility requirements, but receive their education other than at school, do not benefit from these meals; congratulates both Brighton and Hove City …

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Deposited Papers

Nov. 25 2008

Source Page: Table showing number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals, 2001 to 2008.
Document: DEP2008-2842.xls (Excel)

Found: Table showing number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals, 2001 to 2008.

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Deposited Papers

Dec. 06 2007

Source Page: Table showing number of pupils in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools who are a) taking free school meals and b) eligible for free school meals, broken down by local authority. 7 p.
Document: DEP2007-0264.xls (Excel)

Found: Table showing number of pupils in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools who are a) taking free

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