To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3O-732 by Adam Ingram on 27 September 2007 (Official Report c. 2220), what the estimated cost is of extending free school meals to those children whose parents are in receipt of maximum working families tax credit. At the current rateof uptake of free school meals, we estimate that extending entitlement for freeschool meals to children whose parents are in receipt of maximum child tax creditand maximum working tax credit would cost approximately £17.3 million per year.