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100971

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what arrangements they are making to provide adequate nutrition for children of school age during long school holidays.
tabling member printed	Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
uin	HL2427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Child Poverty Strategy, published in June 2014, outlined the Government’s actions to tackle child poverty and improve the living standards of poor children.[1]</p><p> </p><p>In relation to nutrition, the Government has introduced Healthy Start Vouchers for young children in low-income families, free school meals for all infant school pupils, and breakfast clubs in deprived areas. In addition, children aged four to six attending state schools continue to be entitled to receive a free piece of fruit or vegetable each school day.</p><p> </p><p>Universal infant free school meals will ensure that up to 1.5 million additional pupils are being offered a free nutritious meal every school day, helping them to do better in school, eat healthily and saving families up to £400 a year.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 14:22:42 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	635 label Biography information for Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

100972

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have carried out any research to ascertain the physical and mental effects on the ability of children from low income households to learn caused by poor nutrition during long school holidays.
tabling member printed	Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
uin	HL2428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Child Poverty Strategy, published in June 2014, outlined the Government’s actions to tackle child poverty and improve the living standards of poor children.[1]</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made no specific assessment of the effects on child nutrition in low income households during school holidays.</p><p> </p><p>Universal infant free school meals will ensure that up to 1.5 million additional pupils are being offered a free nutritious meal every school day, helping them to do better in school, eat healthily and saving families up to £400 a year.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 14:21:19 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	635 label Biography information for Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

100973

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the cost to the Exchequer of providing adequate nutrition for children of school age during long school holidays.
tabling member printed	Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
uin	HL2429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Child Poverty Strategy, published in June 2014, outlined the Government’s actions to tackle child poverty and improve the living standards of poor children. [1]</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made an estimate of the costs to the Exchequer of providing adequate nutrition for children for children of school age during the school holidays.</p><p> </p><p>Universal infant free school meals will ensure that up to 1.5 million additional pupils are being offered a free nutritious meal every school day, helping them to do better in school, eat healthily and saving families up to £400 a year.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 14:21:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	635 label Biography information for Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

100974

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to support piloting child meal provision and enrichment programmes targeted on areas with high percentages of children receiving free school meals.
tabling member printed	Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
uin	HL2430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Child Poverty Strategy, published in June 2014, outlined the Government’s actions to tackle child poverty and improve the living standards of poor children.[1]</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the charity ‘Magic Breakfast’ to help over 180 schools in some of the most deprived communities to set up breakfast provision to ensure that the children attending those schools start the day with a healthy breakfast as fuel for learning.</p><p> </p><p>Universal infant free school meals will ensure that up to 1.5 million additional pupils are being offered a free nutritious meal every school day, helping them to do better in school, eat healthily and saving families up to £400 a year.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 14:24:33 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	635 label Biography information for Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

100975

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have considered including school holiday provision in passported benefits to be included in Universal Credit.
tabling member printed	Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
uin	HL2431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Child Poverty Strategy, published in June 2014, outlined the Government’s actions to tackle child poverty and improve the living standards of poor children.[1]</p><p> </p><p>We have not considered including school holiday provision in passported benefits to be included in Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 14:21:59 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	635 label Biography information for Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

100976

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what studies they have made of best practice existing in other countries in the provision of family support for children from low income families during school holidays.
tabling member printed	Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
uin	HL2432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>There is no Government research assessing the provision of family support for children from low income families in other countries.</p><p> </p><p>The Child Poverty Strategy, published in June 2014, outlined the Government’s actions to tackle child poverty and improve the living standards of poor children.[1]</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 11:58:42 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	635 label Biography information for Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

100983

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Church Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what impact assessment they have made of the risk of Islamic extremism occurring in Christian schools which teach traditional Christian views about marriage.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL2439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>All schools have an important part to play in increasing their pupils’ resilience to extremism and radicalisation and preparing them for life in modern Britain by promoting the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. The Department for Education has not carried out a formal assessment of the risk of Islamic extremism occurring in the types of schools to which my noble Friend refers.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/11/2014 14:28:10 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

100984

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Church Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the implementation of the Education (Independent School Standards) (England) (Amendment) 2014, requiring the active promotion of protected characteristics as set down in the Equality Act 2010, what provision will be made to enable Christian schools to teach traditional Christian values and views about marriage; and what measures they have taken to ensure that any such provisions are not overridden.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL2440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>The Education (Independent School Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 do not require the active promotion of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act.</p><p> </p><p>The Regulations require that schools actively promote principles which encourage respect for other people, paying particular regard to the protected characteristics. This is a crucial distinction. It is right to respect other people, even if one does not agree with them or their way of life. This is a fundamental part of preparation for life in modern Britain.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is absolutely clear that the changes make no difference to the existing legal obligations that schools have under the Equality Act 2010. All schools are already required to abide by the Act and their obligations are not altered by the changes to the standards. The changes do not fetter the views of individual teachers or censor the discussion of relevant matters. A teacher who, for instance, disagrees with same-sex marriage because of their Christian faith will not be prevented from expressing that view by these changes. Since the changes make no difference to schools’ existing legal obligations under the Equality Act there is no question of the ability of schools to teach traditional Christian values being overridden.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 05/11/2014 17:55:38 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton