Last week, Nursery World reported that thousands of people had signed petitions calling on the Government to continue with the scheme which sees all children aged four to seven provided with a free school dinner.
It follows reports that the Liberal Democrat flagship policy could be axed in the Autumn Spending Review (25 November) amid claims the scheme’s funding is ‘eating into the core education budget’.
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Cameron said, ‘We’re very proud of what we’ve done with free school meals. It was an excellent reform carried out in the last parliament.
‘We are now going to have a spending review where obviously we have to make sure that we are delivering on our spending promises.’
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