Question follow-through · 1944
Schools: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will support food growing schemes in schools.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 30 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 5 Aug 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
26 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will support food growing schemes in schools.
30 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Aug 2024
Answer published
It is important that children eat nutritious food at school and the department encourages schools to have a whole school approach to healthy eating.Having a school garden or setting up a gardening club are some of the ways schools can achieve this approac...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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