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Debate between Kirsten Oswald and Alex Burghart
Monday 23rd May 2022

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alex Burghart Portrait Alex Burghart
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I am looking forward to visiting my hon. Friend’s apprenticeship fair in a few weeks’ time.

Kirsten Oswald Portrait Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire) (SNP)
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Last week, on Radio 4, a Leeds primary school headteacher said that, due to cost cutting by catering companies, they were having to challenge caterers about the size of school meals to ensure that children have

“more than one potato or more than four chips”.

Given that the Scottish Government deliver free school meals for children in primary 1 to 5, and will be expanding that to all primary pupils, what consideration has been given to increasing funding for free school meals to ensure that all primary pupils have at least one decent-sized meal a day?

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