Question follow-through · 110653
Food: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to help tackle inequalities in access to healthy, minimally processed food through education.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to help tackle inequalities in access to healthy, minimally processed food through education.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
The national curriculum aims to teach children how to cook and how to apply the principles of healthy eating and nutrition. In response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review, the department has set out that we will enhance the identity of food education...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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