HC Deb 20 June 1968 vol 766 c1294
24. Mr. Hunt

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what guidance he has given to local education authorities regarding the continued supply of free milk to independent junior schools.

Miss Bacon

None, Sir.

Mr. Hunt

Would the right hon. Lady remind local education authorities that parents who send their children to independent schools are ratepayers and taxpayers in exactly the same way as everybody else and that to discriminate against them in the supply of school milk is victimisation of a most unfair and unpleasant kind?

Miss Bacon

I think that local authorities are fully aware of the position. They know that they have a duty to provide milk in maintained schools and only a power to do so in non-maintained schools. I do not think that they need reminding of that.