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	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children receive free school meals in each (a) free school and (b) local authority area where a free school has been established.
	tabling member constituency	Burton
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
	uin	202406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Information on the percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals was included in the publication ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2014'.[1]</p><p>Information on the percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in individual schools, including free schools, is provided in the publication's underlying data. This includes school type and local authority.</p><p>Table 8a in the publication shows the percentage of pupils in state-funded nursery and primary schools known to be eligible and claiming free school meals by each local authority area. Table 8b shows the percentage of pupils in state funded secondary schools known to be eligible and claiming free school meals by each local authority area. Table 3 shows the percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in free schools nationally.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 30/06/2014 13:54:16 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

58243

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all schools can provide free school meals for infant children by September 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	uin	198708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government is providing substantial funding to enable schools to offer free meals to all infant pupils from September 2014, including over £1 billion additional revenue funding over the two years 2014 to 2016 and £150 million capital funding in 2014-15. The revenue funding includes transitional funding to small schools, worth a minimum of £3,000, which qualifying schools will be able to use to help them overcome delivery challenges.</p><p> </p><p>We are also funding a national support service, run by school food experts, which is providing advice and guidance to schools that need assistance in implementing universal infant free school meals. The support includes a telephone helpline, the sharing of good practice, and an intensive face-to-face support service for schools facing significant challenges.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/06/2014 12:33:27 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

58244

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of schools which will be unable to provide universal free school meals for infant children from September 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	uin	198709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>From September, all state-funded schools in England will be under a statutory duty to offer a free school lunch to all infant pupils. Based on the feedback we are receiving, the vast majority of schools are already on track to deliver this policy and we are supporting the other schools to do so.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/06/2014 15:12:39 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

64484

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) England received free school meals in 1995-96 and in each year since.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
	uin	202878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number and percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in York local authority, North Yorkshire local authority, Yorkshire and the Humber region and England for 2002 to 2014 has been placed in the Library of the House.</p><p>Comparable data for earlier years are not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 07/07/2014 14:43:58 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

62452

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are putting in place to encourage increased up-take of free school meals among eligible pupils.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>We have developed the Online Free School Meal Eligibility Checking Service (ECS), which is a system that allows local authority users to undertake record checks from one central point. The ECS allows local authorities to check data held by the Department for Work and Pensions, the Home Office and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in order to establish eligibility for free school meals (FSM). The ECS has been extended to allow parents to check their own eligibility, and to apply online, for FSM. The new system reduces the time, stigma and bureaucracy previously associated with applications for FSM, therefore encouraging more parents to register their children for a free school lunch.</p><p> </p><p>Resources are also available from the Children's Food Trust at <a href="http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/</a> to help schools increase take-up of free school meals.</p><p> </p><p>From September 2014, all children in reception, year 1 and year 2 attending state-funded schools will be eligible for a free school lunch, regardless of parental circumstances.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 23/06/2014 15:10:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey