Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 30 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 8 November 2012, Official Report, column 685W, on school milk, how many portions of school milk have been (a) consumed and (b) counted for purposes of claiming EU school milk aid in each of the last 10 financial years.
Specific information on portions of school milk consumed is not held by DEFRA.
However, we are able to arrive at an approximate amount of the number of portions which are claimed under the EU school milk scheme each financial year based on the annual amount in kilolitres to which subsidy is paid divided by the most commonly supplied carton size, 189ml. The following table covers the last ten financial years.
Financial year | Kilolitres paid on | Assuming 189ml carton size |
2001/2 | 44,531.961 | 235,618,841 |
2002/3 | 43,665.499 | 231,034,386 |
2003/4 | 46,195.339 | 244,419,783 |
2004/5 | 42,721.541 | 226,039,899 |
2005/6 | 42,080.561 | 222,648,470 |
2006/7 | 45,961.203 | 243,180,968 |
2007/8 | 42,967.675 | 227,342,195 |
2008/9 | 42,628.907 | 225,549,772 |
2009/10 | 42,010.687 | 222,278,767 |
2010/11 | 30,026.572 | 158,870,751 |
2011/12 | 23,645.934 | 125,110,761 |
Source: Rural Payments Agency |
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