HC Deb 26 January 1956 vol 548 cc55-6W
96. Mr. Parker

asked the Minister of Health when he now intends to introduce legislation to extend the cheap milk period from five years and one month to five and a half years so as to eliminate the gap just before children start regular attendance at school.

Mr. Turton

The number of children in whose case there is a gap between the end of the cheap milk scheme and entitlement to school milk is small; I do not consider that I would be justified in incurring the heavy administrative expenditure that would become necessary in order to secure that all children of these ages received either welfare milk or school milk.