| Heading: |
Free School Meals: Health |
| Question ID: |
1810937 |
| UIN: |
58539 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5270 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Darren Paffey
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| Asking Member handle: |
darrenpaffey
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@darrenpaffey
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take with the Department for Education to monitor the potential impact of the (a) expansion of free school meal eligibility and (b) changes to School Food Standar |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
Free school meals offer a critical nutritional safety net to those children who require it most. Expanding the eligibility criteria to all families in receipt of universal credit will provide 500,000 more children with access to a nutritious lunchtime mea... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |