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
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.
Nov. 25 2008
Source Page: Table showing number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals, 2001 to 2008.Found: Table showing number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals, 2001 to 2008.
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
Jan. 04 2024
Source Page: Bridging payment and free school meals: FOI releaseFound: Bridging payment and free school meals: FOI release
Jan. 04 2024
Source Page: Bridging payment and free school meals: FOI releaseFound: Bridging payment and free school meals: FOI release
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.Found: Table showing number of pupils in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools who are a) taking free
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of children who are (a) eligible and (b) not registered for free school meals.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The department publishes statistics annually which detail the number of pupils registered to receive free meals. The latest data shows that over 2 million pupils are registered for benefits-based free school meals (FSM), which is 23.8% of all pupils. Close to 1.3 million additional pupils benefit from universal infant free school meals. Taken together, over one third of pupils receive free school meals.
The department does not collect data on the proportion of pupils that may be entitled to FSM but do not make a claim. Therefore, the department has not made a recent estimate on the number of children not registered for free school meals.
Jan. 02 2024
Source Page: Pledged pilot scheme for free school meals in secondary schools: FOI releaseFound: Pledged pilot scheme for free school meals in secondary schools: FOI release