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Asked if this was the best use of the government’s limited budget, or whether cash could instead be targeted towards poorer children including free meals over the summer holidays, Mr Drakeford said a universal approach was important to stop children facing “stigma and shame” in school.
He told the BBC Politics Wales programme: “In the long run it will do such an important job in bringing those young people in our primary schools to have a healthy diet, to socialise with one another, and to do all of that [while] removing that sense of stigma and shame that’s prevented young people in Wales in the past from accessing that help that’s available to them.
“Of course, we wish we had £15m sitting spare to go on doing what we’ve been able to do during the emergency years of Covid. We don’t.”
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