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• Reference: 2023/1037
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. When will schools receive funding for free school meals from your scheme for 2023-24, will the funding be supplied as a block or in relation to monthly or other outturns, and will it be provided in advance or in arrears?

• Reference: 2023/1038
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. The current funding only covers the academic year of 2023/2024. What can schools expect from you for 2024/2025?

• Reference: 2023/1039
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. Poverty does not end at primary school. What support are you giving to children in secondary schools?

• Reference: 2023/1065
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

What communication did you have with local authorities in advance of your announcement to provide free school meals to all primary school students in London? Can you list the local authorities you contacted?

• Reference: 2023/1066
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Does the £130m for free school meals cover the entire cost of the additional meals, including energy costs?

• Reference: 2023/1075
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Will children attending private Haredi schools be eligible for free school meals under your scheme for universal free school meals announced on 20 February 2023, and if so will this be on a means-tested basis?

• Reference: 2023/1076
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 23 March 2023

Do you recognise that a significant proportion of Haredi people are subject to poverty, and that private Haredi schools are in the main run by and for the community?

• Reference: 2022/2340
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

Please publish a comparison between the number of learners that participated in Adult Education Budget (AEB)-funded learning in the year before the AEB was devolved (2018-2019) with the number of learners that have participated in AEB-funded learning in each year since devolution; and please provide a breakdown of this data by learner characteristic.

• Reference: 2022/2341
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 21 July 2022

How do you measure outcomes for the 80 per cent of the Adult Education Budget that is distributed through grant funding to FE colleges and other providers?

• Reference: 2022/1803
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 23 June 2022

Given the most recent data for adult literacy rates is now over eleven years old and was commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, will you look into commissioning new research into the most recent data on adult literacy rates?