PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Breakfast Clubs (20 April 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of additional breakfast club places which will be created by the £10 million increase in funding announced in paragraph 1.95 of Budget 2016 in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Bradford.

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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