Mr. Jenkinsasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (1) which of the local education authorities in Wales and Monmouthshire are providing feeding, other than cooked meals, for pupils in elementary, secondary, technical, and other schools; the terms upon which the food is supplied; and the income test, if any, now in operation;
(2) which of the local education authorities in Wales and Monmouthshire are at present supplying cooked meals to pupils in elementary, secondary, technical, and other schools; the terms upon which the meals are supplied; and the income test, if any, now in operation?
Mr. LindsayThe following table shows in which areas the local education authorities make some provision for free milk, free solid meals and solid meals on payment in public elementary schools, and for solid meals, free or on payment, in secondary schools. In a number of areas school dinners in secondary schools are provided by the local governing bodies, but these are not shown in the table. No information is available as to the provision by local education authorities of free milk in secondary schools. In addition to the provision of free meals in secondary schools maintenance allowances are sometimes given which are intended to meet the whole or part of the cost of school dinners. Provision for the supply of milk on payment is made in all areas though not in all the schools. The income scales in force for the provision of free milk or solid meals cannot be conveniently set out in a tabular form. So far as the Board are aware provision for milk and for solid meals, free or on payment, is made in all special and nursery schools. The Board have no information as to the provision in technical schools.
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Public Elementary Schools. Secondary Schools. Local Education Authority. Provision of Free Milk. Provision of Dinners. Provision of Dinners. Free. For Payment. Free. For Payment. Anglesey … … Yes — — — — Breconshire … … Yes — — Yes Yes Caernarvonshire … … Yes * Yes — — Cardiganshire … … — — Yes Yes Yes Carmarthenshire … … Yes — — — Yes Denbighshire … … Yes — — Yes Yes Flintshire … … — — — — — Glamorgan … … Yes — — Yes Yes Merionethshire … … — — Yes — — Monmouthshire … … Yes Yes — * * Montgomeryshire … … — — — — — Pembrokeshire … … Yes — — — — Radnorshire … … * — — Yes Yes Cardiff … … Yes Yes — Yes Yes Merthyr Tydfil … … Yes Yes — Yes Yes Newport (Mon.) … … Yes Yes — — Yes Swansea … … Yes Yes — Yes Yes Carmarthen … … * — — — — Llanelly … … Yes — — — — Neath … … Yes — — — — Pembroke … … Yes — — — — Port Talbot … … — Yes — — — Wrexham … … Yes Yes — — — Aberdare … … Yes — — — — Abertillery … … Yes Yes† — — — Barry … … Yes Yes — — — Ebbw Vale … … Yes Yes‡ — — — Mountain Ash … … Yes Yes — — — Pontypridd … … Yes§ — — — — Rhondda … … Yes Yes — — — * Provision approved, but not yet in operation. † Breakfasts, dinners and teas. ‡ Breakfasts and dinners. § Fruit or biscuits are provided with the milk.