The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too.The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too. The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too.

The government has announced it is “capping” the number of branded school uniform items, saving families up to £50 a year per child.

The change was confirmed in the Labour Party government spending review on Wednesday. The government has set out its plans to deliver breakfast clubs to every primary-aged child in England too. From the start of this term, 750 schools will receive funding to deliver a free breakfast club, reaching more than 180,000 children and 70,000 pupils from schools in the most deprived parts of the country.

It is also establishing a long-term Crisis and Resilience Fund worth £1 billion per year, including Barnett impact, to provide preventative support to households as well as assist them when in crisis.

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It is also providing an additional £1.6 billion per year by 2028-29 to continue the expansion of childcare entitlements for working parents. It is also investing £410 million per year by 2028-29 to expand Free School Meals in England to all children with a parent receiving Universal Credit, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty by the end of the Parliament.

In response, Conservative Party MP Mel Stride says the chancellor has “completely lost control”, describing her funding announcements as a “spend now, tax later review”.

“She knows she will need to come back here in the autumn with yet more taxes,” he tells the Commons, with shouts of agreement coming from behind him.

“She presented herself as the iron chancellor, but what we have seen is the tinfoil chancellor,” he added on Wednesday as he gave his instant reaction to the speech.

He goes on to call her “flimsy” and ready to “fold in the face of the slightest pressure”, referring to the government’s latest winter fuel payment U-turn.

“She is weak, weak, weak… these spending plans are a fantasy,” Stride says.