To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table showing the expenditure on school meals for each year from 1978–79 to the latest date available, in current and constant prices.
Local authority current expenditure on school catering for each year since 1979–80 is given in the table. Information for 1978–79 is not available. Catering includes both school meals and milk. The school meals element is not available separately.
Local authority
| 1979–80
| 1980–81
| 1981–82
| 1982–83
| 1983–84
| 1984–85
| 1985–86
| 1986–87
| 1987–88
| 1988–89
| 1989–90 1
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1989–90 prices 2
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| Clwyd | 6,648 | 5,072 | 4,447 | 4,692 | 5,063 | 4,830 | 4,641 | 4,816 | 4,856 | 3,178 | 3,751 |
| Dyfed | 7,415 | 4,773 | 4,760 | 4,774 | 4,823 | 3,950 | 3,730 | 3,927 | 4,028 | 3,268 | 4,416 |
| Gwent | 7,956 | 6,960 | 6,796 | 6,972 | 6,769 | 6,785 | 6,400 | 6,841 | 6,362 | 4,537 | 4,582 |
| Gwynedd | 4,838 | 3,820 | 3,432 | 3,478 | 3,262 | 3,249 | 3,196 | 3,137 | 3,108 | 2,723 | 2,462 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 11,638 | 9,199 | 8,630 | 9,036 | 9,267 | 10,593 | 9,403 | 9,130 | 8,461 | 6,150 | 7,301 |
| Powys | 2,693 | 1,973 | 1,783 | 2,149 | 2,113 | 1,822 | 1,450 | 1,335 | 1,245 | 1,121 | 1,179 |
| South Glamorgan | 4,652 | 3,015 | 3,003 | 2,971 | 3,035 | 3,129 | 3,085 | 2,547 | 2,439 | 2,004 | 2,318 |
| West Glamorgan | 6,395 | 4,876 | 4,637 | 4,782 | 3,805 | 4,530 | 3,483 | 3,446 | 3,241 | 3,045 | 2,904 |
| Total Wales | 52,234 | 39,689 | 37,488 | 38,855 | 38,138 | 38,889 | 35,388 | 35,179 | 33,741 | 26,028 | 28,912 |
1 Cash price budgets. | |||||||||||
2 Deflated using GDP deflator. | |||||||||||