Hansard

Schools: Milk

Volume 700: debated on Wednesday 23 April 2008

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Baroness Byford

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What proportion of the United Kingdom school milk market is subsidised by the European Union. [HL2989]

The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(Lord Rooker)

The school milk subsidy scheme is made available to all children between the ages of five and 11 in primary and nursery schools in participating local authorities throughout the UK. In the 2006-07 school year there were 195 claimants; 189 of these were local education authorities, three were schools and the remaining three were private schemes.