Junk food levy could fund meals for 800,000 more children and young people in England, experts tell PM

Eight hundred thousand more children in England from deprived families should get free school meals as part of an assault on food poverty, public health experts have demanded.

They are urging Rishi Sunak to increase the number of children and young people entitled to a free lunch at school from 1.9 million to 2.7 million by including all families receiving universal credit.

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