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1546851

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential scale of undercounting of young carers in the children in need census.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	99920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The children in need census collects information only on children who are referred to children’s social care services. Therefore, it does not provide a full count of young carers in England. However, where social workers have identified that being a young carer is a factor relevant to a child being in need of children’s social care services, information is collected. More information on the census is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census</a>.</p><p>To provide a more complete count of young carers in England, information on whether a pupil has been identified as a young carer will be collected for the first time in the 2023 spring school census. This new indicator was designed in consultation with representatives from the educational, voluntary and charitable sectors and accompanying guidance for schools has been provided on completing the census. The department is continuing to work closely with these sectors to promote usage of the new indicator from January 2023 and beyond.</p><p>Information on the cost and saving to the public purse from services provided by young carers is not held centrally. Data on local authority expenditure on family support services is collected via the Section 251 return and published in the annual local authority and school expenditure statistical release. This can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022</a> and here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Expenditure on young carers is not collected as a separate category.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 99921 99922 99923 question first answered 05/12/2022 17:31:49 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1546852

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the school census accurately records the number of young carers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	99921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The children in need census collects information only on children who are referred to children’s social care services. Therefore, it does not provide a full count of young carers in England. However, where social workers have identified that being a young carer is a factor relevant to a child being in need of children’s social care services, information is collected. More information on the census is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census</a>.</p><p>To provide a more complete count of young carers in England, information on whether a pupil has been identified as a young carer will be collected for the first time in the 2023 spring school census. This new indicator was designed in consultation with representatives from the educational, voluntary and charitable sectors and accompanying guidance for schools has been provided on completing the census. The department is continuing to work closely with these sectors to promote usage of the new indicator from January 2023 and beyond.</p><p>Information on the cost and saving to the public purse from services provided by young carers is not held centrally. Data on local authority expenditure on family support services is collected via the Section 251 return and published in the annual local authority and school expenditure statistical release. This can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022</a> and here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Expenditure on young carers is not collected as a separate category.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 99920 99922 99923 question first answered 05/12/2022 17:31:49 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1546853

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of services provided for young carers in the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	99922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The children in need census collects information only on children who are referred to children’s social care services. Therefore, it does not provide a full count of young carers in England. However, where social workers have identified that being a young carer is a factor relevant to a child being in need of children’s social care services, information is collected. More information on the census is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census</a>.</p><p>To provide a more complete count of young carers in England, information on whether a pupil has been identified as a young carer will be collected for the first time in the 2023 spring school census. This new indicator was designed in consultation with representatives from the educational, voluntary and charitable sectors and accompanying guidance for schools has been provided on completing the census. The department is continuing to work closely with these sectors to promote usage of the new indicator from January 2023 and beyond.</p><p>Information on the cost and saving to the public purse from services provided by young carers is not held centrally. Data on local authority expenditure on family support services is collected via the Section 251 return and published in the annual local authority and school expenditure statistical release. This can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022</a> and here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Expenditure on young carers is not collected as a separate category.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 99920 99921 99923 question first answered 05/12/2022 17:31:49 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1546854

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an estimate of the annual saving to the public purse from services provided by young carers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	99923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The children in need census collects information only on children who are referred to children’s social care services. Therefore, it does not provide a full count of young carers in England. However, where social workers have identified that being a young carer is a factor relevant to a child being in need of children’s social care services, information is collected. More information on the census is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census</a>.</p><p>To provide a more complete count of young carers in England, information on whether a pupil has been identified as a young carer will be collected for the first time in the 2023 spring school census. This new indicator was designed in consultation with representatives from the educational, voluntary and charitable sectors and accompanying guidance for schools has been provided on completing the census. The department is continuing to work closely with these sectors to promote usage of the new indicator from January 2023 and beyond.</p><p>Information on the cost and saving to the public purse from services provided by young carers is not held centrally. Data on local authority expenditure on family support services is collected via the Section 251 return and published in the annual local authority and school expenditure statistical release. This can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-251-2021-to-2022/section-251-outturn-guidance-2021-to-2022</a> and here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Expenditure on young carers is not collected as a separate category.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho grouped question UIN 99920 99921 99922 question first answered 05/12/2022 17:31:49 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1240715

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support smaller higher education institutes who may have difficulty repaying loans during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	99750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises that the COVID-19 outbreak is bringing significant financial challenges to the higher education (HE) sector and we have been working closely with the sector, including with smaller specialist providers, the Office for Students (OfS), and other government departments to monitor the likely impacts.</p><p>The OfS as the independent regulator of HE in England monitors their financial sustainability. The OfS provides targeted allocations for world-leading specialist providers, which was £43 million for 2020/21. The OfS hopes to undertake a review of the current specialist provider funding arrangements later this year and will release further details at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The government has also announced a package of measures which combines different ways to give further support to providers at this time of financial pressure. We have pulled forward an estimated £2.6 billion worth of forecast tuition fee payments to ease cashflow pressure this autumn. In the last academic year, we also brought forward £100 million quality-related research funding support for HE providers in England.</p><p>This is on top of the unprecedented package of support for businesses already announced by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and a range of business loan schemes, to help pay wages, keep staff employed and support businesses whose viability is threatened by the outbreak. HE providers are eligible to apply for these schemes.</p><p>The government has also announced a further package of support to universities, and other research organisations, to enable them to continue their research and innovation activities. This includes £280 million of government funding as well as a package of low-interest loans with long pay-back periods, supplemented by a small amount of government grants. In sharing responsibility for the future of science and research with our world-leading university system, from the autumn, the government will cover up to 80% of a university’s income losses from international students for the academic year 2020/21, up to the value of their non-publicly funded research activity.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced further information about the Higher Education Restructuring Regime on 16 July. This may be deployed as a last resort, if a decision has been made to support a provider in England, when other steps to preserve a provider’s viability and mitigate the risks of financial failure have not proved sufficient. The overarching objectives, which will guide the department’s assessment of cases, will be protecting the welfare of current students, preserving the sector’s internationally outstanding science base and supporting the role that HE providers play in regional and local economies by offering high quality courses aligned with economic and societal needs. We will consider providers’ circumstances on a case-by-case basis, supported by expert advice, to ensure there is a robust value for money case for intervention. Public funds in the form of repayable loans to support restructuring will be as a last resort with strict conditions that align with wider government objectives.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 99751 99752 99753 question first answered 13/10/2020 16:19:01 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1240717

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of support available to smaller specialist higher education institutes.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	99752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises that the COVID-19 outbreak is bringing significant financial challenges to the higher education (HE) sector and we have been working closely with the sector, including with smaller specialist providers, the Office for Students (OfS), and other government departments to monitor the likely impacts.</p><p>The OfS as the independent regulator of HE in England monitors their financial sustainability. The OfS provides targeted allocations for world-leading specialist providers, which was £43 million for 2020/21. The OfS hopes to undertake a review of the current specialist provider funding arrangements later this year and will release further details at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The government has also announced a package of measures which combines different ways to give further support to providers at this time of financial pressure. We have pulled forward an estimated £2.6 billion worth of forecast tuition fee payments to ease cashflow pressure this autumn. In the last academic year, we also brought forward £100 million quality-related research funding support for HE providers in England.</p><p>This is on top of the unprecedented package of support for businesses already announced by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and a range of business loan schemes, to help pay wages, keep staff employed and support businesses whose viability is threatened by the outbreak. HE providers are eligible to apply for these schemes.</p><p>The government has also announced a further package of support to universities, and other research organisations, to enable them to continue their research and innovation activities. This includes £280 million of government funding as well as a package of low-interest loans with long pay-back periods, supplemented by a small amount of government grants. In sharing responsibility for the future of science and research with our world-leading university system, from the autumn, the government will cover up to 80% of a university’s income losses from international students for the academic year 2020/21, up to the value of their non-publicly funded research activity.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced further information about the Higher Education Restructuring Regime on 16 July. This may be deployed as a last resort, if a decision has been made to support a provider in England, when other steps to preserve a provider’s viability and mitigate the risks of financial failure have not proved sufficient. The overarching objectives, which will guide the department’s assessment of cases, will be protecting the welfare of current students, preserving the sector’s internationally outstanding science base and supporting the role that HE providers play in regional and local economies by offering high quality courses aligned with economic and societal needs. We will consider providers’ circumstances on a case-by-case basis, supported by expert advice, to ensure there is a robust value for money case for intervention. Public funds in the form of repayable loans to support restructuring will be as a last resort with strict conditions that align with wider government objectives.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 99750 99751 99753 question first answered 13/10/2020 16:19:01 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1240718

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the financial viability of smaller, specialist higher education institutes.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	99753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises that the COVID-19 outbreak is bringing significant financial challenges to the higher education (HE) sector and we have been working closely with the sector, including with smaller specialist providers, the Office for Students (OfS), and other government departments to monitor the likely impacts.</p><p>The OfS as the independent regulator of HE in England monitors their financial sustainability. The OfS provides targeted allocations for world-leading specialist providers, which was £43 million for 2020/21. The OfS hopes to undertake a review of the current specialist provider funding arrangements later this year and will release further details at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The government has also announced a package of measures which combines different ways to give further support to providers at this time of financial pressure. We have pulled forward an estimated £2.6 billion worth of forecast tuition fee payments to ease cashflow pressure this autumn. In the last academic year, we also brought forward £100 million quality-related research funding support for HE providers in England.</p><p>This is on top of the unprecedented package of support for businesses already announced by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and a range of business loan schemes, to help pay wages, keep staff employed and support businesses whose viability is threatened by the outbreak. HE providers are eligible to apply for these schemes.</p><p>The government has also announced a further package of support to universities, and other research organisations, to enable them to continue their research and innovation activities. This includes £280 million of government funding as well as a package of low-interest loans with long pay-back periods, supplemented by a small amount of government grants. In sharing responsibility for the future of science and research with our world-leading university system, from the autumn, the government will cover up to 80% of a university’s income losses from international students for the academic year 2020/21, up to the value of their non-publicly funded research activity.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced further information about the Higher Education Restructuring Regime on 16 July. This may be deployed as a last resort, if a decision has been made to support a provider in England, when other steps to preserve a provider’s viability and mitigate the risks of financial failure have not proved sufficient. The overarching objectives, which will guide the department’s assessment of cases, will be protecting the welfare of current students, preserving the sector’s internationally outstanding science base and supporting the role that HE providers play in regional and local economies by offering high quality courses aligned with economic and societal needs. We will consider providers’ circumstances on a case-by-case basis, supported by expert advice, to ensure there is a robust value for money case for intervention. Public funds in the form of repayable loans to support restructuring will be as a last resort with strict conditions that align with wider government objectives.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 99750 99751 99752 question first answered 13/10/2020 16:19:01 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1240716

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential for (a) higher education institutes to go into insolvency during the covid-19 outbreak and (b) job losses as a result of that insolvency.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	99751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises that the COVID-19 outbreak is bringing significant financial challenges to the higher education (HE) sector and we have been working closely with the sector, including with smaller specialist providers, the Office for Students (OfS), and other government departments to monitor the likely impacts.</p><p>The OfS as the independent regulator of HE in England monitors their financial sustainability. The OfS provides targeted allocations for world-leading specialist providers, which was £43 million for 2020/21. The OfS hopes to undertake a review of the current specialist provider funding arrangements later this year and will release further details at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The government has also announced a package of measures which combines different ways to give further support to providers at this time of financial pressure. We have pulled forward an estimated £2.6 billion worth of forecast tuition fee payments to ease cashflow pressure this autumn. In the last academic year, we also brought forward £100 million quality-related research funding support for HE providers in England.</p><p>This is on top of the unprecedented package of support for businesses already announced by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and a range of business loan schemes, to help pay wages, keep staff employed and support businesses whose viability is threatened by the outbreak. HE providers are eligible to apply for these schemes.</p><p>The government has also announced a further package of support to universities, and other research organisations, to enable them to continue their research and innovation activities. This includes £280 million of government funding as well as a package of low-interest loans with long pay-back periods, supplemented by a small amount of government grants. In sharing responsibility for the future of science and research with our world-leading university system, from the autumn, the government will cover up to 80% of a university’s income losses from international students for the academic year 2020/21, up to the value of their non-publicly funded research activity.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced further information about the Higher Education Restructuring Regime on 16 July. This may be deployed as a last resort, if a decision has been made to support a provider in England, when other steps to preserve a provider’s viability and mitigate the risks of financial failure have not proved sufficient. The overarching objectives, which will guide the department’s assessment of cases, will be protecting the welfare of current students, preserving the sector’s internationally outstanding science base and supporting the role that HE providers play in regional and local economies by offering high quality courses aligned with economic and societal needs. We will consider providers’ circumstances on a case-by-case basis, supported by expert advice, to ensure there is a robust value for money case for intervention. Public funds in the form of repayable loans to support restructuring will be as a last resort with strict conditions that align with wider government objectives.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 99750 99752 99753 question first answered 13/10/2020 16:19:01 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1682594

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
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, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the earned income threshold of £7,400 for universal credit claimants under the Free School Lunches and Milk, and School and Early Years Finance (Amendments Relating to Universal Credit) (England) Regulations 2018 on the number of children who will be eligible for free school meals in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	9947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>This government has extended eligibility for free school meals (FSM) several times and to more groups of children than any other government over the past half a century, most notably through the introduction of universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) FSM in 2014. The result of this is that over a third of pupils in England now receive free meals, compared with one in six in 2010.</p><p>The department monitors data on the number of pupils who are eligible for FSM, including estimates for future years, but no formal assessment has been made on the number of children eligible for FSM in 2024 and 2025. The department publishes statistics annually which show that over 2 million pupils are currently eligible for FSM. This is an increase from 1.1 million eligible pupils in 2018, when extensive transitional protections were first introduced.</p><p>Protections ensure that children in receipt of FSM will not lose access to this entitlement until at least March 2025, even if their household’s financial circumstances improve. The department does not plan to formally assess the number of children who would no longer be eligible for FSM, in the absence of the protections policy.</p><p>The department has always been clear that a child is only eligible for FSM if their family meets the eligibility criteria at the point of applying for FSM. The result may be that in some cases for children in the same household, some may be eligible for FSM whilst others are not. The department does not plan to make an estimate of this figure.</p><p>Further information is available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics#dataBlock-2f5a67c4-6e66-414a-a926-f959d8b6443a-tables" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics#dataBlock-2f5a67c4-6e66-414a-a926-f959d8b6443a-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 9948 question first answered 19/01/2024 11:15:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1682595

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
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, if she will make an estimate of the number of children who previously received but are no longer eligible for free school meals as a result of their households reaching a net earned income threshold of £7,400 per annum under Universal Credit at the point of claim as of 9 January 2024; and whether her Department holds data on families with multiple children in which one or more child qualifies for free school meals but not the others.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	9948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>This government has extended eligibility for free school meals (FSM) several times and to more groups of children than any other government over the past half a century, most notably through the introduction of universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) FSM in 2014. The result of this is that over a third of pupils in England now receive free meals, compared with one in six in 2010.</p><p>The department monitors data on the number of pupils who are eligible for FSM, including estimates for future years, but no formal assessment has been made on the number of children eligible for FSM in 2024 and 2025. The department publishes statistics annually which show that over 2 million pupils are currently eligible for FSM. This is an increase from 1.1 million eligible pupils in 2018, when extensive transitional protections were first introduced.</p><p>Protections ensure that children in receipt of FSM will not lose access to this entitlement until at least March 2025, even if their household’s financial circumstances improve. The department does not plan to formally assess the number of children who would no longer be eligible for FSM, in the absence of the protections policy.</p><p>The department has always been clear that a child is only eligible for FSM if their family meets the eligibility criteria at the point of applying for FSM. The result may be that in some cases for children in the same household, some may be eligible for FSM whilst others are not. The department does not plan to make an estimate of this figure.</p><p>Further information is available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics#dataBlock-2f5a67c4-6e66-414a-a926-f959d8b6443a-tables" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics#dataBlock-2f5a67c4-6e66-414a-a926-f959d8b6443a-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 9947 question first answered 19/01/2024 11:15:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson