Question follow-through · 63917
School Meals: Meat
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to reduce the requirement on schools to serve three meat options a week.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to reduce the requirement on schools to serve three meat options a week.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
To ensure quality and nutrition in meals for the future, the department is acting quickly with experts across the sector to revise the school food standards, so that every school is supported with the latest nutrition guidance.The review will consider all...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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