§ Miss Wilkinsonasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education how many school children have been evacuated into areas where the local authorities do not provide free or reduced-price milk to school children; and whether any steps are being taken to ensure that children who were having milk in their home schools shall not be deprived of this important service?
Mr. LindsayThese questions are discussed in Section VI of the Board's Circular 1475 of which I am sending a copy to the hon. Member. The number of children evacuated to areas where free milk is not provided for local children cannot be stated, but as the cost of free milk for children who were receiving it in their former schools will be charged to the evacuating authority, the fact that in a few areas free milk is not provided for local children should not prevent evacuated children from receiving it. The Milk-in-Schools Scheme is in operation in some or all of the schools in all the reception areas except Morecambe. The Board are anxious that so far as possible children who took milk in their home schools should continue to receive it in their new schools.