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Written question asked by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Monday, 3 March 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 11 March 2025 (named day). It was answered by Stephen Morgan (Labour) on Thursday, 13 March 2025 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Breakfast Clubs: West Midlands

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by how much funding allocations for breakfast clubs in schools will increase in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Solihull in each year for which data is available.

Answer

The government is committed to introducing free breakfast clubs in every state-funded school with primary-aged pupils. The Autumn Budget 2024 confirmed over £30 million of funding for breakfast clubs for the 2025/26 financial year. This funding will enable us to fund up to 750 early adopters of the new breakfast clubs. Decisions about future funding for breakfast clubs will be taken as part of the next phase of the spending review.

All schools will receive £500 to cover initial set up costs and a lump sum of at least £1,000 per term, regardless of how many pupils are in attendance.

Schools will then receive a payment in arrears each term based on the number of pupils who accessed the club and the characteristics of pupils.

For the summer term this means there will be two payments. An initial fixed payment will be made to schools at the end of April 2025 for local authority maintained schools and at the beginning of May 2025 for academies. This will include the initial set up and lump sum payment. An arrears payment will be made to schools between October and December 2025, to cover the costs of running the breakfast club in the summer term 2025 (58 days).

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
34779
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Birmingham Finance Solihull Breakfast clubs
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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