Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much milk is purchased by (a) nursery and (b) primary schools each year.

We do not collect information on how much milk nursery or primary schools purchase. However, both the EU School Milk Subsidy Scheme and Nursery Milk Scheme reimburse schools and nurseries against the costs of providing milk to eligible children. In academic year 2014/15, the School Milk Scheme provided subsidies towards 14,125.250kl of milk in England and the Nursery Milk Scheme reimbursed the cost of providing 92,977,223 pints of milk to children in nursery and reception classes. This is the latest year for which comparable figures are available for both schemes.

Further information about these schemes is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/eligibility-for-the-school-milk-subsidy-scheme

https://www.nurserymilk.co.uk/how-to-claim-for-nursery-milk