Merton's school food figures are up!

Later on today new figures will be announced showing the proportion of children now buying a school meal. These figures will be of great interest following the ill informed comments of our Health Secretary Andrew Lansley since he declared Jamie Olivers attempt to improve school food as a failure last week.

I don't know what the national trend will be (though I suspect it will be up)However I know that the proportion of children eating school dinners in the London Borough of Merton is up

Secondary schools
2009 37.4%
2010 46.9%

Primary schools
2009 33.3%
2010 35.2%

So Mr Lansley, here is proof that children will eat tasty affordable school meals. Jamie and all the other school dinner campaigners were absolutely right to insist on healthy food. I will post a link to the national statistics as soon as they are up.