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Education News: Healthy Eating - Milk subsidy for schools toremain

Schools minister Jacqui Smith has announced that the Government will continue to subsidise milk in England's primary schools.

"I am delighted that milk subsidies will continue," she said. "This willcomplement our work to effect no less than a transformation in thehealth content of school meals and undo decades of neglect."

Ministers had been urged to reconsider the annual 1.5m subsidyafter a report for the Government by London Economics said that it"creates high administrative costs and has apparently small benefits forchild health" (Children Now, 11-17 January).

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