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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Free school meals need to be immediately extended says government food tsar

Free school meals must be extended immediately to stop hundreds of thousands of kids going hungry, the government's food tsar told MPs today.

Henry Dimbleby branded it "one of the best measures we can do", and a "no-brainer" that could save the country billions in the long run.

He told a cross-party committees of MPs that around a million parents qualify for Universal Credit but their children are not eligible for free school meals.

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