| Heading: |
Free School Meals: Universal Credit |
| Question ID: |
1810083 |
| UIN: |
HL8183 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4234 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Lister of Burtersett
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Baroness Lister of Burtersett
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer from Baroness Smith of Malvern on 20 May (HL7185), whether they will now answer the question put; namely what estimate they have made of the number of children who will lose their entitlement |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
Transitional protections have been in place since 2018 to ensure no one who gained free school meal (FSM) eligibility would lose it while Universal Credit was rolled out. We are clear that no pupil with transitional protections will lose their entitleme... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |