§ Mr. J. Griffithsasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he can state the number of schoolchildren in South Wales who receive milk at school; and the percentage of the total number who are in receipt of a free supply of milk?
Mr. LindsayOn 1st October, 1938, the latest date for which figures are available, 144,126 children in public elementary schools in South Wales (including the counties of Brecon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor and the autonomous urban areas within those counties) were receiving milk at school. During the month of January, 1939, 53,739 children attending public elementary schools in those areas received free milk. This figure is 37.3 per cent. of the total number receiving milk on 1st October, 1938, and 19.3 per cent. of the total number of children on the registers of the schools on that date.