Children In Poverty And Free School Meals

EDM number 1191 in 2012-13, proposed by George Galloway on 14/03/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Employment, Food, Incomes and poverty and Schools.

That this House is shocked by the statistic that around 700,000 school-age children living in poverty are not receiving free school meals; congratulates the Children's Society for revealing this shameful state of affairs; notes that many working parents below the poverty line are discriminated against by being denied this crucial health benefit for their children because they are employed; further notes that a single parent working for 16 hours a week and a couple working 24 hours, both on working tax credit, cannot qualify, however poor they may be; and calls on the Government to ensure that all school-age children living in poverty receive free school meals whether or not their parents have jobs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.