(Image: REUTERS)The estimated cost of extending free school meal vouchers in England over summer, £115m, could be paid 180 times from the £20.8bn spent on furlough so far. Scotland have Wales have already said they will continue free meal vouchers over the summer holidays - and in Wales it's worth £19.50 per child per week. The row erupted as pressure mounts on the government to make a U-turn and extend free meal vouchers over the summer holidays in England. Worth £15 a week, free school meal vouchers help poor families with the extra cost of feeding kids stuck at home during Covid-19. Ministers plan to delete Labour's motion calling for free school meal vouchers, and replace it with one backing what the government has already done.

Source: Daily Mirror June 16, 2020 08:34 UTC