§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his estimate of the number of schoolchildren who currently receive free school meals who are in families who will receive neither income support nor family credit under the proposals contained in Cmnd. 9691.
§ Mr. NewtonThese will almost all be children who currently receive free school meals under local authority discretionary schemes. Because the latter are individual local schemes and entitlement conditions vary a reliable estimate of how many of the children are in families who will receive neither income support nor family credit is not possible.