Question follow-through · 17789
School Meals: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the number of schools that stop offering hot meals to children during heatwaves.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the number of schools that stop offering hot meals to children during heatwaves.
14 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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17 Jul 2026
Answer published
The department has not made an assessment of the number of schools that stop offering hot meals during periods of hot weather.Beyond the School Food Standards, decisions about catering arrangements are a matter for individual schools and their catering pr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Schools: Air Conditioning
8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer to WQ17788 on 16 July 2026, what portion of the £710 million renewal and retrofit programme is expected to be spent on air conditioning systems for schools.
Schools: Air Conditioning
8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Department's Answer to WQ17788 on 16 July 2026, what portion of the £710 million renewal and retrofit programme has been spent on air conditioning systems for schools to date.