Question follow-through · 28850
School Meals: Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that school meals are (a) balanced and (b) nutritional.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that school meals are (a) balanced and (b) nutritional.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
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.The School Food Standards regulate the food and drink provided at lunchtime and at other times of the schoo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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