School Milk

Baroness Masham of Ilton Excerpts

Wednesday 25th January 2017 Lords Chamber

[Lord Nash]

I am afraid I do not know the answer to that question. I will investigate it and write to my noble friend.

[Baroness Masham of Ilton (CB)]

My Lords, will the Minister say whether there are any systems in schools so that children who are deprived and come to school without breakfast get the milk they need?

[Lord Nash]

I entirely agree with the noble Baroness and I am very shocked to see how many pupils often arrive at school having not eaten. Some even do not necessarily use their dinner money to eat in school. All schools try to discourage this and try to get them to eat in school, but there are an increasing number of breakfast programmes, such as the Magic Breakfast, and we have announced in the Budget that we are providing further money to enable schools to provide breakfast clubs.