Free School Meals: Expenditure
Commons · Question 5980 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Damian Hinds
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the total amount of public funding for free school meals in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2023-24.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Morgan, 14 Oct 2024
Local authorities receive their core funding for schools through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). Since 2018/19, the DSG allocations have been calculated based on the national funding formula (NFF). The schools NFF includes a ’free school meal (FSM) fac...