Question follow-through · 58903
Schools: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the updated school food standards promote the procurement of food from local producers and growers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the updated school food standards promote the procurement of food from local producers and growers.
12 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
The department is engaging with stakeholders on revising the school food standards, to ensure they support our work to create the healthiest generation of children in history.Schools are responsible for their school meals service and how and where they ch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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