HC Deb 14 December 1970 vol 808 cc264-5W
Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if a certificate issued by a child's doctor will be accepted for the purposes of continued free school milk.

Mr. van Straubenzee

The intention is that entitlement to free school milk on health grounds shall be certified by a medical officer of the local education authority. The school medical officer will no doubt give due weight to relevant information and opinion from a child's family doctor in arriving at his own conclusion in a particular case.