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Healthy Diet

Volume 455: debated on Thursday 18 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps he is taking with ministerial colleagues in the Department of Health to educate pupils about the importance of a healthy diet and to enable them to maintain a healthy diet in schools. (115475)

[holding answer 17 January 2007]: Pupils learn about the importance of a healthy diet through the National Curriculum subjects of science and food technology, and through Personal, Social and Health Education.

In addition, by 2013, through an entitlement to cook, all children will have the opportunity to acquire the practical skills to prepare simple nutritious dishes from basic ingredients by the end of Key Stage 4.

The new nutritional standards for school food will ensure that pupils can maintain a healthy diet in school.