Ruth Smeeth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Smeeth on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the available funding for the Pupil Premium Summer School Programme was spent in 2015; and how much was spent on food provision for children outside term time.

Mr Sam Gyimah

From 2015-16, the total expenditure by the Department on the summer schools programme was £38m. The Department does not collect data on the number of schools that provided meals for pupils as part of their summer school, nor on the amount of summer school funding spent on food provision.