5th Annual Survey of School Lunches
11 August, 2011
Take-up of school lunches during the past year was 44.1% in primary schools and 37.6% in secondary schools.
This represents an increase over 2009-2010 of 2.7 percentage points in the primary sector and 1.8 percentage points in the secondary sector. This equates to approximately 173,000 more pupils taking school lunch in 2010-2011.
Average school lunch prices were £1.88 in the Local Authority-catered primary sector and £1.98 in the secondary sector. This represents a price increase of 3% for primary and 2% for secondary on the preceding year.
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