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date	23/02/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the success of the free school lunch programme for the under-sevens.
tabling member printed	Lord Ashcroft
uin	HL5068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) programme is a great success. Evidence collected from local authorities and multi-academy trusts in August 2014 suggested that 98.5% of schools would be providing hot meals from the start of the autumn term; and the Department for Education is not aware of any schools which are not offering free meals to all their infant pupils. Over 1.6 million infant pupils (85.2% of all infant pupils) took a free school meal on autumn census day in October 2014 – 1.3 million more than were estimated to have taken a free school meal in the January 2014 school census, prior to the introduction of UIFSM. We know from pilots run between 2009 and 2011 that the introduction of universal free school meals helps to improve social skills, increase attainment and encourage healthy choices, as well as saving hard-working families money.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 03/03/2015 18:00:18 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2568 label Biography information for Lord Ashcroft

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date	22/01/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: 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 help infants schools that are struggling to provide universal free school meals due to overstretched equipment or logistical problems.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>We have provided substantial support to help schools deliver this policy. We have already allocated £150 million capital funding to universal infant free school meals and are now providing an additional £24.5 million for individual school projects to ensure that the meals provided are of high quality, and particularly that all schools are able to offer hot meals.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that some smaller schools may face particular challenges and have therefore allocated a further £22.5 million transitional funding in 2014-15 to help schools with 150 pupils or fewer to implement the policy. Each qualifying small school received a minimum of £3000.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the £1.2 billion in general capital funding for school maintenance and improvements made available to local authorities this year.</p><p> </p><p>We have also set up an implementation support service, staffed by school food experts, which schools can contact for advice and support to help them overcome any issues they encounter. This service will continue to be available to schools until the end of 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 27/01/2015 15:29:53 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey