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How long ago was The Pov? If you qualified for FSM at any point in the last 6 years, that entitlement goes on, even if your circumstances change. So, yes I'd say he does.
It's a little more complicated. He may have been eligible in primary if his father was earning an extremely low income when he started school
and the family were in receipt of Tax Credits. This entitlement would be carried by him until phase change (ie, end of Primary) - but the earnings limit was very low, the sort of thing that would be earned from working part-time on NMW and caring for a disabled child.
As part of the Universal Credit rollout, transitional protection was introduced, where any child in receipt of FSM in 2018 would then carry that entitlement forward even with a phase change. But if she were to be the resident parent, her income (undeclared because she had failed to file accounts) and that of the extremely wealthy partner would have exceeded that amount/assumed to exceed as it hadn't been evidenced and he would therefore not have been eligible for that transitional protection. She has never qualified for UC and the father was definitely the resident parent at the time of transition to secondary.
Moreover, the earnings limit was slashed to
duck all last year but we heard exactly nothing about it. Which suggests again that she has absolutely no experience of it. There was also precisely sod all about personal experience of the FSM parcels or vouchers over Covid, other than glomming onto Roadside Mum's viral tweets and trying to grab the interviews where (although RSM turned out to be another appalling individual) it was actually RSM's story, claiming that she was the expert and was therefore entitled to receive income that was by all measures RSM's.
Tl;dr he may well be eligible for FSM. However, it would be likely that this is purely due to the kid living with his father and possibly as a direct result of him officially becoming a single parent at the point of secondary transition (she was in residential rehab, don't forget) after 2018, nothing to do with her.