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1143672

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	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Food Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he will respond to the Children’s Future Food inquiry.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	285233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>All children should be able to access healthy and nutritious food at home and at school. This is an essential part of building a country that works for everyone, and in which every child and young person can reach their potential.</p><p>We are supporting around 1.1 million of the most disadvantaged children through free school meals, saving families approximately £400 a year.</p><p>We invested in a £9 million holiday activities and food programme in summer 2019, and up to £26 million in a breakfast clubs programme.</p><p>We are continuing to reflect on the report and its recommendations and will set out our response in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 285227 question first answered 06/09/2019 17:37:45 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1143673

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Food Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has for establishing a children’s food watchdog.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	285234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>​This government wants pupils to be healthy and well-nourished and we encourage a healthy balanced diet and healthy life choices through school funding, legislation and guidance.</p><p> </p><p>My officials will continue to work with colleagues from The Food Foundation to scope out how we might all come together to address the issues raised in the Children’s Future Food Inquiry report and we will set out our response to this report later in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 06/09/2019 17:35:40 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson