§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will give details of the amounts of subsidies and payment towards free and cheap meals, milk, etc., which are paid in each of the countries of the Six; to what extent her recent policy of reducing and ending welfare benefits to school children was to harmonise with the practices in being in the countries of the Six; and whether she will make a statement.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeThe information requested in the first part of the Question is not available in my Department;. but in any case details of this kind were not a consideration in the Government's decisions with regard to new arrangements for the provision of milk and meals in schools.