asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the local authorities which have now taken up the European Economic Community milk subsidy for school milk for 7 to 11-year olds.
Any local authority which provides free milk for schoolchildren is entitled to claim the EEC subsidy of just over 4½p per pint. Any local education authority which provides free milk for 7 to 11-year olds under the discretionary power available to it from the start of the present school year is entitled, in addition, to claim reimbursement from my Department of the balance of the cost, including overheads, of providing this milk during the 1978–79 financial year. The education authorities which have decided to take advantage of this latter arrangement are as follows:
- Barking
- Barnsley
- Birmingham
- Bolton
- Bury
- Brent
- Calderdale
- Cleveland
- Cornwall
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Doncaster
- Durham
- Ealing
- Gateshead
- Gloucesteshire
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Humberside
- ILEA
- Isle of Wight
- Knowsley
- Leicestershire
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Merton
- Newcastle
- Newham
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oldham
- Richmond-upon-Thames
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sheffield
- Somerset
- St. Helens
- Stockport
- Sunderland
- Sutton
- Tameside
- Trafford
- North Tyneside
- South Tyneside
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Warwickshire
- Wigan
- Wolverhampton