§ Mrs. Iris RobinsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2004,Official Report, column 1161W, on school fruit, whether the fresh fruit in schools scheme will be extended. [187438]
§ Angela SmithThe Department has secured funding to enable this pilot scheme to continue in 2004–05, and for the scheme to be extended within the Health Action Zone areas to enable some new ideas to be tested this year. A final evaluation of the pilot scheme will take place in 2004–05. The outcome of this, together with work being taken forward by Fit Futures, the Taskforce on Obesity in Children and Young People and the development of a new Food and Nutrition Strategy, will help inform future decisions about the scheme.
§ Mrs. Iris RobinsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many children in the Province received free fruit at school in 2003–04. [187432]
§ Angela SmithA pilot Fresh Fruit in Schools Scheme was launched in Northern Ireland in October 2002. In the academic year September 2003 to June 2004 it provided a free piece of fruit daily to 5,239 primary 1 and 2 children in 87 primary schools within Health Action Zone areas.