Question follow-through · 13456
School Meals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools, parents and pupils have clear information on whether schools are meeting the School Food Standards once the updated standards are introduced.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools, parents and pupils have clear information on whether schools are meeting the School Food Standards once the updated standards are introduced.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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2 Jul 2026
Answer published
Compliance with the School Food Standards is mandatory for maintained schools, academies and free schools.The department is strengthening accountability by making school food more transparent to parents and the community, and by proposing a named lead gov...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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School Milk
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