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419925

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on free school meals for children aged between four and seven.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	10903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The government recognises the benefits of providing a healthy school meal to the most disadvantaged children. Children in England who receive, or whose parents receive, specified benefits[1] are entitled to receive free school meals. Free meals were also extended to disadvantaged students in further education institutions from September 2014.</p><p>Since 1 September 2014, state-funded schools in England have been required by law to provide free lunches to all pupils in reception, year one or year two.</p><p>The provision of universal infant free school meals was a commitment in the Conservative Party Manifesto.</p><p>[1] Income Support (IS); Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA); an income-related employment and support allowance; support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; Child Tax Credit (provided they are not entitled to Working Tax Credit) with an annual income, as assessed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), that does not exceed £16,190; the guarantee element of State Pension Credit; or Universal Credit. Where a parent is entitled to Working Tax Credit run-on - the payment someone receives for a further four weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit -their children are entitled to free school meals.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 10709 question first answered 15/10/2015 15:52:35 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

419928

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on continuing free school meals for children between the ages of four and seven; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	10845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The continuation of universal infant free school meals was a commitment in the Conservative Party’s election manifesto.</p><p>The government is currently conducting a Spending Review across all its programmes.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/10/2015 15:17:16 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

419939

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much schools have spent renovating, replacing or installing new kitchen equipment prior to the introduction of the universal infant free school meals programme.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	11009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government has provided significant support for schools to improve kitchen and dining room facilities for their infant pupils. We have allocated £184.5 million capital funding in total specifically for this purpose, and an additional £32.5 million UIFSM funding to support small schools in improving their infant meal provision, which can be used to purchase equipment or fund minor capital works.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 11010 question first answered 15/10/2015 15:43:51 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

419944

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional pupils have become eligible for free school meals in (a) the North East and (b) Easington constituency since the introduction of the universal infant free school meals programme.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	11011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>Based on information collected by the Department for Education in the January 2015 school census, 1,616,154 infant pupils in England, 69,381 infant pupils in the North East and 2,037 infant pupils in the parliamentary constituency of Easington were entitled to universal infant free school meals. These figures exclude infant pupils who were entitled to free school meals because their parents or carers were in receipt of qualifying benefits.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 11012 question first answered 15/10/2015 16:01:55 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

417240

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to continue the universal infant free school meals programme.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	9136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government is currently conducting a Spending Review across all its programmes. The Government does not offer a running commentary on the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/09/2015 14:22:12 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

228528

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2015 to Question 226581, what support her Department provides to primary schools to ensure that the free school meals offered by those schools are healthy.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	228392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The new School Food Standards came into force in January 2015 ensuring schools provide heathy meals throughout the week. The Department for Education provides guidance on the standards[1] and funds the implementation support service, including a menu checker service helping schools to provide hot, healthy menu choices for all their pupils. The School Food Plan website also provides a range of support and advice on providing healthy food in schools.[2]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/school-meals-healthy-eating-standards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/school-meals-healthy-eating-standards</a></p><p>[2] <a href="http://whatworkswell.schoolfoodplan.com/" target="_blank">http://whatworkswell.schoolfoodplan.com/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 24/03/2015 14:04:50 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

225624

registered interest
date	06/03/2015
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department provides to primary schools to ensure that all infants take up the provision of free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	226581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has provided substantial support to help schools deliver this policy. More than £1 billion of revenue funding is being provided to schools over two years on top of almost £175 million capital funding allocated this year to support them in improving their kitchen and dining facilities. The department has also allocated £22.5 million transitional funding in 2014-15 to help schools with 150 pupils or fewer to implement the policy. All this funding has been provided 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>The department has also set up an implementation support service, staffed by school food experts, which schools can contact for advice and support to help them to increase take-up of meals by their infant pupils.</p><p> </p><p>Over 1.6 million infant pupils (85.2% of all infant pupils) took a free school meal on autumn census day in 2014. This is a rise of 1.3 million from the 0.3 million infant pupils who were estimated to have taken a free school meal in the January 2014 school census.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 12/03/2015 14:02:35 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

222727

registered interest
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

175352

registered interest
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

106426

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
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	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 costs and benefits of the introduction of universal infant free school meals in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	213397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is responsible for the introduction of the requirement that state-funded schools in England should offer universal infant free school meals, which came into effect on 1 September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2009 and 2011 the Department for Education and the Department of Health piloted the provision of universal free school meals in Durham and Newham. The independent evaluation of those pilots showed that there were a number of benefits arising from the provision of universal free school meals, including improved attainment, healthier eating habits and increases in the uptake of meals among children who would have been eligible for free school meals under the existing criteria. We also know, from research carried out by the School Food Trust (now Children’s Food Trust), that universal infant free school meals will save families who previously paid for school lunches up to £400 a year per infant child.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has used School Food Trust research into the costs of school meal provision, as well as feedback from local authorities and stakeholders, to inform the allocation of funding for this policy and the targeting of implementation support. In particular, this research informed the decision to allocate £2.30 of revenue funding per meal taken by newly eligible pupils.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:27:32 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie