The Mayor of London's free school lunch policy is praised by a new independent report.
The Mayor of London has said his policy of free lunch for every pupil at state primary schools in London will continue despite questions about how he will pay for it.
Sadiq Khan told BBC London: “As long as I am mayor of this great city I will make sure we carry on with this fantastic policy.”The scheme provided meals to 287,000 children in its first year, at a cost of £135m. It is currently in its second year, with the cost having risen to £140m.The mayor said: "We will be publishing our budget in due course and setting out confirmation that this policy will carry on next year.
The mayor’s chief of staff David Bellamy told the assembly’s budget committee the free school meals scheme was "not something substantively that the GLA mayoral budget has the resources to do, so that is something we will be dealing with in the group budget from the total income sources available to the mayor - we will set that out in the draft budget in January”.
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