HC Deb 12 December 1986 vol 107 c232W
Mr. Coombs

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what plans he has to provide nutritional guidelines for private caterers tendering for school meal contracts in the form recommended by COMA.

Mr. Dunn

The responsibility for the provision of school meals rests with local education authorities and not with the Government. It will be for each LEA to stipulate in its invitation to tender and in the final contract what nutritional standards it requires.

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