Question follow-through · 26528
Schools: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure school canteen food is locally sourced.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure school canteen food is locally sourced.
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2026
Answer published
The government remains committed to our ambition that half of all food served in public settings is either locally sourced or certified to higher environmental standards, and we are open to considering all lawful means of achieving this. The school food s...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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