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Select Committee
Twenty-Ninth Report - Progress in implementing Universal Credit

Report Apr. 26 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: We asked the Department whether it could assure us the expected benefits of UC are achievable and free

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Education

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)
Document: (PDF)

Found: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Education

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)
Document: (PDF)

Found: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)

Select Committee
Impetus
 DES0015 - Devolution of employment support

Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024

Inquiry: Devolution of employment support
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: against outcomes (for example show they have worked with X number of young people previously on free

Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) there is more worrying evidence today about generation lockdown, among which there is not only massive school - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) It is not more free cash, as some have said. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) levelling up the Tees Valley—but it is the Conservatives who are delivering the largest expansion of free - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) We worked together on the all-party parliamentary group on hunger, the School Holidays (Meals and Activities - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that where this has happened in communities and people are not able to get access to free - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Portfolio Question Time - Thu 25 Apr 2024

Mentions:
1: Dey, Graeme (SNP - Angus South) The student support offer and our continuing commitment to free tuition are ensuring that more people - Speech Link
2: Dey, Graeme (SNP - Angus South) institutions in Aberdeen to set up a pilot project to share data on applicants who are eligible for free - Speech Link
3: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) This year, we are providing £12 million to local authorities to support the continued delivery of free - Speech Link
4: Smith, Liz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) Scotland and Fife, to ensure that they can maintain the no-fee principle when it comes to pupils accessing free - Speech Link

Written Question
Free School Meals
Thursday 25th April 2024

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.

Select Committee
Parent Advisory Group for East Of England Neonatal Operational Delivery Network
 PRT0050 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: Some families were able to access free meals, whereas other units did not offer this.

National Audit Office
Childcare and children’s services - Apr. 24 2024
Report - Preparations to extend early years entitlement for working parents in England (PDF)

Found: Work & Pensions’ support through Universal Credit, and HM Revenue & Customs’ support through its T ax-Free

Select Committee
Twenty-Eighth Report - Student loans issued to those studying at franchised higher education providers

Report Apr. 24 2024

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: franchised higher education providers Summary Universities and other higher education providers are free