School Meals

Education and Skills written question – answered at on 7 April 2005.

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Photo of Richard Taylor Richard Taylor Independent, Wyre Forest

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether the £280 million pledged by the Government to improve school meals is new money in addition to funds already allocated to local education authorities.

Photo of Derek Twigg Derek Twigg Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education and Skills) (Schools)

The money to improve school meals has come from the Department's reserve. It is therefore new money over and above existing allocations to local education authorities.

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