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The recent remarks by a head teacher in Southampton criticising the quality of school meals for children – Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe. Oral questions

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Obesity: Children (18 Mar 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: ...take easy steps to improve their families' health and wellbeing. We work with the Department for Education to ensure that children are provided healthy food options in early years settings, and in school. For children aged zero to five years old, the Early Years Foundation Stage framework states that where children are provided with meals, snacks, and drinks, they must be healthy,...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Free School Meals: Eligibility (15 Mar 2024)

Lord Field of Birkenhead: To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they have provided, if any, to local authorities about using data proactively to identify and register all eligible children for free school meal entitlement.

Scottish Parliament: Addressing Child Poverty Through Parental Employment (14 Mar 2024)

John Mason: ...responsibilities are in play. As the Government points out in its response to the committee, there needs to be “wider action to tackle poverty”, including “more affordable homes ... Free School Meals and” social security. The fact that the social security budget is rising from £5.3 billion to £6.3 billion while many other budgets are rising by very little—if at all—seems, to...

National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill (13 Mar 2024)

Kirsty Blackman: ...an NHS that is free at the point of use—in Scotland, that is, not in England, where people have to pay prescription charges. They are able to benefit from their children being able to go to schools and get educated, from colleges, from mental health services, and from potholes being filled and bins being emptied. Everybody can benefit from all of those things; those public services are...

2. Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: School Meals (13 Mar 2024)

Jenny Rathbone: ...work under way in places like Carmarthenshire and Monmouthshire, what steps should the incoming Government take to engage with procurers and providers to excise these ultra-processed chemicals from school meals

1. Questions to the First Minister: Improving Education (12 Mar 2024)

Mark Drakeford: ...in Wales, there are 9,500 places—not a plan, but actually happening in Wales. Let me give her the second reason that she can be a bit more cheerful than she managed earlier on: universal free school meals for our children—opposed, of course, by her party. Some 150,000 extra pupils are benefiting from that policy, with 17 million additional free meals provided to children in our...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Members' Statements: Child Poverty: NIAO Report (12 Mar 2024)

Danny Baker: I welcome the report from the NI Audit Office (NIAO) today on child poverty. The report outlines in detail that one in five children in the North is living in poverty. Children receiving free school meals are twice as likely to leave school with no GCSEs, and there are ongoing concerns around their school attendance. All evidence shows that children who grow up in poverty are more likely to...

Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge) (11 Mar 2024)

Kirsty Blackman: ...are met so that their children and their children’s children have a planet to grow up on. We ensure they can afford to live. That is why we have things such as the Scottish child payment, free school meals for P1 to P5, baby boxes and free bus travel for under-22s. I do not know how many Members remember being under 22 and being totally frustrated at how much transport costs. People are...

Prioritising Early Childhood: Academy of Medical Sciences Report - Question (11 Mar 2024)

Lord Markham: I assure my noble friend that the numbers are correct; they are the lowest since 2006-07. I can also assure her that free school meals are at their highest level ever, at 33%. The whole idea behind those programmes, as well as the Healthy Start in school and the five-a-day, is to give children healthy diets early on, exactly as my noble friend says.

Education: Student Cost of Living Support: Devolved Administrations (11 Mar 2024)

Chris Stephens: New data reveals that in most areas of England, state school pupils who have received free school meals have less than a one in four chance of entering higher education. One reason for that is that poorer students decide not to pursue that path because of the prospect of being saddled with huge debt, which takes decades to clear. Do the Government believe that they should follow the Scottish...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Food (11 Mar 2024)

Damian Hinds: The government’s school food standards regulates the food and drink provided at both lunchtime and at other times of the school day. Beyond this, the department believes that headteachers, school governors and caterers are best placed to make decisions about their school food policies, taking into account local circumstances and the needs of their pupils. The school food standards guidance...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Darlington (11 Mar 2024)

Damian Hinds: ...£469,170, bringing the total to more than £1.9 million in Darlington since the programme began, ensuring thousands of children across Darlington local authority have benefitted from healthy meals and taking part in a range of enriching activities during the longer school holidays.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Free School Meals (11 Mar 2024)

Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 165185 on Free School Meals, whether any complex data, systems, financial and legal implications are still a barrier to the rollout of auto-enrolment.

Income Tax (Charge) ( 7 Mar 2024)

Peter Grant: ...word, but that of the Child Poverty Action Group. We have the child winter heating payment, supporting the most vulnerable young people with disabilities to cope with their fuel bills. We have free school meals for everybody in primary 1 to 5 and for eligible children throughout their time in school.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Free School Meals ( 7 Mar 2024)

Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to support local authorities piloting an opt-out model for free school meal registration.

Scottish Parliament: Pupil Assaults in School ( 7 Mar 2024)

Jenny Gilruth: We have the most comprehensive free school meal offer of any nation in the United Kingdom, and we are currently extending it to cover primary 6 and 7 children in receipt of the Scottish child payment from February 2025 as the next step towards universal provision in our primary schools.

Income Tax (Charge) ( 6 Mar 2024)

Jeremy Corbyn: ...other words, there are 26 other boroughs that are less deprived. Some 19,000 people in my borough experience high levels of food insecurity. I am delighted that the Mayor of London has pledged free school meals across the whole of the city, even though my borough has been providing them since 2010. It is a huge step forward. We have a very high rate of child poverty, with 47.5% of our...

World Book Day — [Mark Pritchard in the Chair] ( 6 Mar 2024)

Nickie Aiken: ...incomes squeezed, I do not think it has ever been more important to protect our libraries. They not only offer a diverse range of books, but act as an essential third place between home and school. That is particularly beneficial for children who live in overcrowded homes and need a quiet place to do their homework. Yesterday, I jointly hosted the World Book Day parliamentary drop-in with...

1. Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople ( 6 Mar 2024)

Jane Hutt: ...Flying Start programme, which, with the co-operation of Plaid Cymru, reaches our most disadvantaged children and families at such an early stage in their lives, and, of course, the roll-out of free school meals, which of course was a key plank of our co-operation agreement and, indeed, of the budget. So, I think we are doing together—. Many of the aspects of the co-operation agreement...


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