§ 96. Mr. Parkerasked 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. TurtonThe 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 in56W order to secure that all children of these ages received either welfare milk or school milk.