PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Breakfast Clubs (20 April 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans for the £10 million increase in funding to expand breakfast clubs in schools announced in paragraph 1.95 of Budget 2016 to be distributed; and how her Department plans to monitor the spending of that funding.

Asked by:
Naz Shah (Labour)

Answer

The Chancellor announced in the recent budget that funding from the new sugar levy would be used in part to expand breakfast clubs in up to 1,600 schools from September 2017. We are currently refining the details of how this scheme will operate and further details will be announced in due course.


Answered by:
Mr Sam Gyimah (Liberal Democrat)
27 April 2016

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