There are 3,829 children in Coventry South who receive free school meals. Talking to their parents, I know how valuable that provision is—how they depend on it, and how their kids would starve without it. So I ask the Minister and MPs on the Government Benches: “If you vote against the motion, if you let kids go to sleep hungry at night, how do you not feel any sense of shame?”
Free School Meals
Proceeding contribution from
Zarah Sultana
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 21 October 2020.
It occurred during Opposition day on Free School Meals.
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