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Schools: Breakfast Clubs

Asked by Laura TrottConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 23 July 2025UIN 67985

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the schools that started the breakfast club pilot scheme on 22 April 2025 have withdrawn; and for what reason each withdrew.

Answered by Stephen Morgan

The first term of free breakfast clubs has already served two million breakfasts and parents, pupils and teachers are seeing the positive benefits this has to the school day.

This is part of a test and learn phase in advance of national rollout. This is a voluntary scheme.

The department is providing a package of support to all schools partaking in the early adopter scheme, including peer-to-peer learning and expert advisers, to ensure that they are confident to deliver their free breakfast clubs. We are working with schools to understand the sufficiency of this offer to inform the national rollout of the new free breakfast clubs.

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