| Heading: |
Nurseries: School Milk |
| Question ID: |
1797809 |
| UIN: |
HL6977 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4970 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Weir of Ballyholme
|
| Asking Member handle: |
LordWeirDUP
|
| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LordWeirDUP
|
| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend entitlement for children who are under five to receive free milk in nurseries and schools to the end of the academic year in which they turn five. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
|
| Date answered: |
2025-05-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
|
| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
|
| Answering Member handle: |
|
| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
|
| Correcting Member ID: |
|
| Correcting Member display name: |
|
| Correcting Member handle: |
|
| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
|
| Answer text: |
The Nursery Milk Scheme is a statutory scheme which allows early years childcare settings to reclaim the cost of providing one-third of a pint of milk per day to children under the age of five years old who attend a setting for two or more hours per day. ... |
| Original answer text: |
|
| Comparable answer text: |
|
| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |