Question follow-through · 50587
School Milk
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to extend the Nursery Milk Scheme entitlement to the end of the academic year in which a child turns five.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to extend the Nursery Milk Scheme entitlement to the end of the academic year in which a child turns five.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
The Nursery Milk Scheme is a statutory scheme which allows early years childcare settings to reclaim the cost of providing one-third of a pint of milk per day to children under the age of five who attend a setting for two or more hours per day. Schools ca...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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