§ Mr. Lightbownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he proposes to make available the findings of the 1986 census of school meals in England.
§ Mr. DunnThe figures for 1986 will be collected later in the year.
I have today placed in the Library of the House copies of the census report for 1985. In view of the disruption to the school meals service at that time, a detailed census of the take-up of school meals was not carried out at the normal time in October, and a census held at a different 165W time of the year would not have produced figures which would be comparable with earlier years. The survey was therefore confined to the prices and policies of authorities. In October 1985 the average price for a fixed price meal in a primary school was 59p and in a secondary 63p.