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Child Obesity - Question ( 1 Feb 2024)

Baroness D'Souza: ...insecurity, costing the National Health Service £6 billion annually, a figure that is likely to rise. It is reliably estimated, meanwhile, that £1.70 is returned for every £1 invested in free school meals over a 10-year period. Does the Minister agree that free school meals for all primary and secondary schoolchildren would be a sound investment?

Scottish Parliament: Charity Lotteries (Sales Cap) ( 1 Feb 2024)

Kenneth Gibson: ...Murray—join us in the public gallery. I thank the People’s Postcode Lottery for its debate briefing. Grass-roots constituency projects and organisations such as the Arran Youth Foundations school holiday programme and Largs First Responders have received more than a quarter of a million pounds of People’s Postcode Lottery funding. Only last week, four winning tickets in a Saltcoats...

Scottish Parliament: Budget 2024-25 ( 1 Feb 2024)

Sue Webber: ...-fenced funds, it should be clear about how it will uprate those funds for subsequent years. As part of their evidence, witnesses also highlighted the fact that, on several policies, including free school meals and absolute teacher numbers, inputs rather than outputs continue to be measured. In our letter to the cabinet secretary, we reiterated that it is of critical importance that there...

Household Support Fund (31 Jan 2024)

Jo Churchill: ...addition to other support that we have made available, including the £200 million per annum holiday activities and food programme, which will carry through into 2024-25. We have also extended free school meals to more groups of children than any other Government in the past half century. Many Members have raised concerns about the end of the current household support fund on 31 March....

1. Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (31 Jan 2024)

Jane Hutt: ...last week, we are taking immediate action in response to many of the recommendations—the Welsh benefits charter being just one response to that. But also, I think, continuing the roll-out of free school meals in all primary schools, as part of the co-operation agreement, is a clear indication of priorities. But this is, in terms of our draft budget—. The £1.3 billion hole in it, as a...

Household Support Fund - Question (30 Jan 2024)

Lord Palmer of Childs Hill: ..., but we want to know in advance what the situation will be. For instance, is there an estimate in the Minister’s file of the number of children in England who will no longer be eligible for free school meals during the school holidays once the household support fund is ended or reduced?

Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 — [Mark Pritchard in the Chair] (30 Jan 2024)

Rosena Allin-Khan: ...very poorest households are four times more likely to develop a mental illness. Some 43% of children who are receiving mental health support from Place2Be, a fantastic organisation, are on free school meals. Addressing the mental health crisis in children must go hand in hand with addressing the cost of living crisis and child poverty. Yet, as many families continue to struggle to afford...

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - Second Reading: Amendment to the Motion (29 Jan 2024)

Lord German: ...to the taxpayer—£368 million at the last count, added to which at least £169,000 for each person removed to Rwanda. These are staggering, eyewatering costs, which could pay for 100 million free school meals or nearly 6 million more GP appointments. Far from being a deterrent, the Bill will promote smuggling—a point which my noble friend Lady Northover will develop in her remarks. It...

Education: Cost of Living Support: Devolved Administrations (29 Jan 2024)

Patricia Gibson: Expanding free school meals has a direct impact on children’s health, promoting cognitive development and improving test scores and concentration. The Scottish Government are rolling out universal free school meals for primary school children. What additional financial efforts will the Minister make to address educational inequality, such as supporting and following the example of the...

Business of the House (25 Jan 2024)

Anna Firth: ...pleasure of meeting Southend’s outgoing Member of the Youth Parliament, the amazing Madi Faulkner-Hatt. Madi raised with me the alarming statistic that the number of eligible pupils claiming free school meals drops by 26 percentage points when those pupils leave primary school, from 77% down to 51%. Given that figures from the House of Commons Library confirm that the number of eligible...

Mentoring (24 Jan 2024)

David Johnston: ...those apprentices. More widely across the education system, mentoring is supporting children and learners to reach their full potential and prepare for the world of work. For young people leaving school, mentoring can be a great way to support effective transitions and empower them to make positive decisions that lead to fulfilling careers. We are running a pilot targeted transition fund...

QNR: Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd (24 Jan 2024)

Lesley Griffiths: ...system across the delivery of the Programme for Government and the Co-operation Agreement. We have transformative policies for farmland management, public health improvement, universal primary free school meals, developing a community food strategy, and strong support for food and drink manufacturing businesses.

4. Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales (23 Jan 2024)

Jane Hutt: ...What's important with Welsh local government is that many are already streamlining their benefits, access to benefits. I've mentioned the key ones: the council tax reduction scheme, access to free school meals eligibility, the school essentials grant, the education maintenance allowance. So, they have committed to work together to ensure that the best practice applies to every local...

Miscellaneous (23 Jan 2024)

Damian Hinds: I ask the hon. Member to forgive me, in the interests of time. We have targeted support in which schools with strong attendance performance support others that need help, and we are expanding that so that almost 2,000 schools will benefit. Our mentoring pilot, which I think the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South inadvertently referred to, is delivering one-to-one support for...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Special Educational Needs: Free School Meals (23 Jan 2024)

Sarah Dyke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the guidance entitled Free school meals: guidance for schools and local authorities, published on 31 January 2023, if she will publish revised guidance with information on the provision of free school meals for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Free School Meals (19 Jan 2024)

Munira Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the earned income threshold of £7,400 for universal credit claimants under the Free School Lunches and Milk, and School and Early Years Finance (Amendments Relating to Universal Credit) (England) Regulations 2018 on the number of children who will be eligible for free school meals in (a)...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Free School Meals: Universal Credit (18 Jan 2024)

Munira Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were receiving free school meals as the result of the transitional protections associated with the April 2018 introduction of an earned income threshold of £7,400 for universal credit claimants in each year from 2018 to 2023.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Food: Children (18 Jan 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: ...salt-or-sugar-consultation-on-secondary-legisl ation Through our Healthy Food Schemes, the Government provides a nutritional safety net to those who need it the most. Healthy Start, Nursery Milk and the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme together help more than three million children. Over £200 million is devoted to the Healthy Food Schemes each year to reflect this commitment. The School...

Public Sector Pay 2024-25 (17 Jan 2024)

Tulip Siddiq: ...pay for workers is lower in value now than it was 14 years ago when the Government first came to power. The NHS, which we all love, is on its knees, with 7.5 million people waiting for treatment. Schools across the country face crumbling concrete as our children are forced into temporary classrooms. My hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne) and the hon. Member for...


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