- Reference: 2023/1029
- Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
- Meeting date: 23 March 2023
We support the plan to provide all primary school children in the capital with free school meals. This needs to be done in a way that is sustainable for the schools. If the funding from your Free School Meals programme does not cover the full cost to schools of providing the meals under their existing catering contracts, will you expect schools or councils to cover the shortfall, and if so will schools be permitted to charge any shortfall to parents?