Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 17789

School Meals: Weather

Tabled: 10 July 2026

Answered: 17 July 2026

Question

Layla Moran

Liberal Democrat — Oxford West and Abingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the number of schools that stop offering hot meals to children during heatwaves.

Answer

Josh MacAlister

The department has not made an assessment of the number of schools that stop offering hot meals during periods of hot weather.Beyond the School Food Standards, decisions about catering arrangements are a matter for individual schools and their catering pr...

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