HC Deb 13 May 1965 vol 712 cc99-100W
21. Mr. Talbot

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is aware that children up to the age of five years are entitled to free milk, and that as the Staffordshire Education Authority is unable to accept five-year-old children at school until the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday, a hiatus exists in which a child slightly over five is for three or four months unable to receive any cheap milk; and if he will take steps to remedy this administrative defect.

Mr. Prentice

My right hon. Friend is aware that children over the age of five years and one month are not normally entitled to welfare milk at a reduced price. He is also aware that in certain parts of the country a small number of children are not being admitted to school until the beginning of the term following their fifth birthday. He could not, however, make arrangements within the existing law for free school milk to be supplied to such children.