Free School Meals
Commons · Question 37186 · Tabled 11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Imran Hussain
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to extend universal free school meals to all children in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) other areas of high child poverty.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Morgan, 19 Mar 2025
The government has a central mission to break down barriers to opportunity for every child. The government has inherited a trend of rising child poverty, which has increased by 700,000 since 2010, with over four million children now growing up in a low in...