That this House commends the progress achieved to date by the National School Breakfast Programme which has, with funding from the Department for Education, partnered with over 1775 schools to provide nutritious breakfasts to an estimated 280,000 children each school day; notes with concern that current funding for the National School Breakfast Programme will end in March 2020; notes that the Programme is funded by a proportion of the revenue raised by the sugar tax levy which continues to generate income; recognises that hungry children miss out on valuable hours of learning, contributing to an educational attainment gap between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers; acknowledges that as many as 1.8 million children are at risk of starting the school day too hungry to learn; acknowledges the Education Endowment Fund and Institute for Fiscal Studies’ findings that children in schools with a free breakfast provision will achieve an additional two months progress in reading and maths over a year, compared with children in schools with no breakfast provision; acknowledges reports from teachers that free breakfast provision improves pupils punctuality, alertness, concentration, behaviour, and attendance; and calls on the Government to make an early decision to continue funding for the Programme with at least £12 million per year and extend the Programme further using more of the revenue raised by the sugar tax levy so that the Programme can reach more disadvantaged children across England.

That this House commends the progress achieved to date by the National School Breakfast Programme which has, with funding from the Department for Education, partnered with over 1775 schools to provide nutritious breakfasts to an estimated 280,000 children each school day; notes with concern that current funding for the National...

That this House notes that an estimated 60 per cent of recipients of homecare and 70 per cent of care home residents live with dementia; acknowledges that dementia is a condition caused by diseases of the brain with complex support needs that should be met by the NHS, like any other health condition; recognises that the typical cost of dementia care of £100,000 can be financially devastating for individuals and families; welcomes the Alzheimer’s Society’s proposal for a Dementia Fund as a financial injection into the social care system in the short-to-medium term, allowing for greater provision of safe and quality care, longer visits and savings to the NHS; believes that this could be financed through unallocated funding for community and preventative support in the NHS Long-Term Plan; and urges the Government to include a Dementia Fund in the forthcoming Spending Review to break the deadlock on reforming the social care system and end the unfairness facing people with dementia.

That this House notes that an estimated 60 per cent of recipients of homecare and 70 per cent of care home residents live with dementia; acknowledges that dementia is a condition caused by diseases of the brain with complex support needs that should be met by the NHS, like any...