{"value":{"id":1756519,"askingMemberId":4008,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-17T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-22T00:00:00","uin":"24633","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will announce funding for a multi-year extension to the Holiday activities and food programme.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4653,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-24T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The government recently announced over £200 million funding for the holiday activities and food (HAF) programme for 2025/26.</p><p>The HAF programme has been delivered nationally by local authorities in England since 2022, to provide healthy meals, enriching activities and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefitting their health, wellbeing and learning.</p><p>Funding beyond March 2026 will be subject to the multi-year Spending Review taking place later this year.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Holiday Activities and Food Programme","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1756519","method":"GET"}]}