HC Deb 30 April 1991 vol 190 cc143-4W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will estimate the cost in the financial year 1991–92 of restoring entitlement to free school meals to(a) the children of parents on family credit and (b) all others who lost entitlement to free school meals as a result of the Social Security Act 1986, giving figures for Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

Mr. Fallon

It is not possible to estimate the cost of reintroducing the wide variety of discretionary schemes which existed prior to the implementation of the Social Security Act 1986.