Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide capital funding for sixth form colleges to enable them to provide free school meals to disadvantaged pupils.

Matthew Hancock

We are making available approximately £75 million revenue funding over the course of the 2014-15 and 2015-16 financial years to enable sixth-form and further education colleges to provide free meals to disadvantaged 16- to 18-year-old students.

We will publish advice on the funding and implementation of this policy shortly.