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The Department allocates funding to schools to support free school meals (FSM) provision, through their core budgets. In 2023/24, the funding rate for each pupil who is eligible for FSM stands at £480. In total, the Department spends over £1 billion each year on free meals, which now support over one third of pupils in England.<\/p>
FSM are intended as a benefit in kind, rather than a cash benefit, and the Department\u2019s primary interest is that schools meet their legal duties to provide nutritious free lunches to eligible pupils.<\/p>
Schools have considerable freedom in how they deliver FSM, and it is important that pupils are claiming their free lunch each day. Schools and colleges should ensure pupils are not building up significant cash reserves on their accounts or regularly spending their allowances at other times of day without receiving their healthy lunch.<\/p>
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The Department allocates funding to schools to support free school meals (FSM) provision, through their core budgets. In 2023/24, the funding rate for each pupil who is eligible for FSM stands at £480. In total, the Department spends over £1 billion each year on free meals, which now support over one third of pupils in England.<\/p>
FSM are intended as a benefit in kind, rather than a cash benefit, and the Department\u2019s primary interest is that schools meet their legal duties to provide nutritious free lunches to eligible pupils.<\/p>
Schools have considerable freedom in how they deliver FSM, and it is important that pupils are claiming their free lunch each day. Schools and colleges should ensure pupils are not building up significant cash reserves on their accounts or regularly spending their allowances at other times of day without receiving their healthy lunch.<\/p>
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Information regarding how many asylum claims are awaiting a decision, broken down in terms of how many have been waiting for more or less than 6 months, until the end of March 2023, is published in the Asy_D03 tab of the \u2018Asylum applications, decisions, and resettlement detailed datasets\u2019<\/a> online.<\/p> <\/p> The Home Office is unable to state the average time taken to process asylum claims because this information is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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