Question follow-through · 80288
School Meals: Gluten-free Foods
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her department holds on the number of pupils in England requiring gluten free meal provision in schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her department holds on the number of pupils in England requiring gluten free meal provision in schools.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department does not hold data on requirements for gluten-free meal provision in schools. The government sets out required minimum standards for school food in the School Food Standards. Headteachers, governors and their caterers are best placed to mak...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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