questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Sutton Trust’s Closing the Attainment Gap report, published on 22 February 2024, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of expanding free school meal eligibility to all children on Universal Credit.
answerText: The government is driving an agenda of change to break down the barriers to opportunity and to reduce child poverty, working across local and national government.Child poverty has increased by 700,000 since 2010, with over four million children now growin...
heading: Free School Meals: Universal Credit