Education and Skills written question – answered at on 21 June 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 7 June 2005, Official Report, column 477W, on school meals, how many schools provide (a) vegetables and (b) fruit on a majority of school days.
The Department does not hold this information centrally. However current nutritional guidelines stipulate that, for primary and secondary schools, a piece of fruit and a vegetable must be available on the menu every day.
The Department of Health is funding the school fruit and vegetable scheme, part of the 5 A DAY programme, to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. Under the scheme, all four to six-year-old children in LEA maintained infant, primary and special schools will be entitled to a free piece of fruit or vegetable each school day.
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