The Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill 2026

Synopsis: This Bill Paper aims to support the Northern Ireland Assembly scrutiny of the Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill – as introduced on 3 March 2026. It includes context setting information, an overview of the Bill’s Clauses that seek to deliver its policy objectives and a Review of Costs that considers key potential “public purse” implications of the introduced Bill with Northern Ireland’s current challenging public finance context.

Date: 30 April 2026