Question follow-through · 115404
School Milk
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the free school milk entitlement through the Nursery Milk Scheme 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
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the free school milk entitlement through the Nursery Milk Scheme to the end of the academic year in which a child turns five.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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3 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Nursery Milk Scheme (NMS) 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 years old who attend a setting for two or more hours per...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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