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That brings us on to school meal standards. Of course, everybody welcomes the increase in the free school meals allocation. As the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, said, it is high time, and we all approve of it. However, without decent standards we have a real problem. The kids may get a bagel for breakfast, provided by Greggs, say—I do not mean to impugn Greggs, but on the whole they sell bagels—and we have heard about kids who then get one of the leftover bagels at break and even another bagel to go home with in the afternoon. That means that they are getting about 800 calories of useless food in a day, which is only going to harm them. Giving children good food at schools is the only opportunity that we have to put people on a healthy diet, which is going to mean a healthy adult.