PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Primary Education: Free School Meals (3 July 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost of introducing free school meals to all primary school children.
Asked by:
Alex Burghart (Conservative)
Asked by:
Alex Burghart (Conservative)
Answer
Expanding universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) to all primary school children is not something the government plans to do and we have not examined this fully. However, initial costings suggest there would be an additional cost of between £700m to £900m per year, increasing the overall cost of UIFSM to between £1.3 billion and £1.5 billion per year.
Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
14 July 2017
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