Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that rural, remote and small settings will continue to receive milk under the Nursery Milk scheme.

Next Steps for Nursery Milk, published on 27 March, set out the Government’s plans to modernise the Nursery Milk Scheme. Ensuring supply to all eligible childcare settings will be a key consideration for the Department in developing the modernised scheme.