That is the stark warning from the Public Accounts Committee, which lastweek published its report Smarter Food Procurement in the PublicSector.
MPs on the committee found that while the average level of school mealtake-up is 45 per cent, this falls to as low as 26 per cent in somelocal authorities, threatening the financial viability of schoolmeals.
Conservative MP Edward Leigh, the chair of committee, said that althoughinitiatives were under way to raise the standard of food served inschools, a greater difficulty was "persuading the customers to want toeat better food". He said the Department for Education and Skills will"have to show it is making measurable progress in these areas".
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