Holiday Activities and Food Programme
Commons · Question 24634 · Tabled 17 Jan 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to extend the eligibility criteria for the Holiday activities and food programme.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Morgan, 27 Jan 2025
The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme is aimed at children in receipt of benefits-related free school meals. However, local authorities have discretion to go beyond this as set out in the HAF guidance: “While the majority of funding that local a...