Question follow-through · 7789

School Meals: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools to provide nutritious school meals.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
10 Jun 2026
Answer
16 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support schools to provide nutritious school meals.

  2. 10 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    We are committed to raising the healthiest generation ever and we are consulting on proposed updates to the School Food Standards, closing on 12 June. The changes we propose to make are related to increasing fibre, reducing sugar and further restricting f...

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