Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps his Department is taking to reduce the risk of bowel cancer through supporting higher fibre diets in schools and other public sector settings. Minister of Health: My Department works closely with the Department of Education (DE), the Education Authority (EA), … Continue reading AQW 47403/22-27 – Reducing the risk of bowel cancer
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 47406/22-27, to detail the estimated annual cost of implementing the revised nutritional standards for school food, agreed following the departmental review in 2021. Minister of Education: The cost estimates made as part of the review of the nutritional standards for school … Continue reading AQW 48469/22-27 – Cost of revised nutritional standards for school food
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Education whether any recent assessment has been made of the potential merits of providing free school meals to all school children. Minister of Education: Free school meals (FSM) continue to provide vital help to many low-income families. For some children, access to a nutritious school … Continue reading AQW 47762/22-27 – Free school meals
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any support that is available to the food and drink sector to transition to low-carbon refrigeration. Minister for the Economy: Financial and technical advice is made available through the Energy and Resource Efficiency Programme, helping businesses in the North to decarbonise. … Continue reading AQW 47405/22-27 – Low-carbon refrigeration
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps he is taking to ensure that primary and secondary school pupils are provided with nutritious, healthy and minimally processed food in schools. Minister of Education: The Education Authority (EA) is responsible for the development of menus across the primary and … Continue reading AQW 45212/22-27 – Processed food in schools
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether any recent assessment has been made of the resilience of food supply chains. Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: My officials work closely with other NICS Departments, Defra and the other devolved nations to understand impacts to the … Continue reading AQW 44517/22-27 – Resilience of food supply chains
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Health to detail the steps his Department is taking to ensure that honey sold here is genuine and not imported, adulterated honey. Minister of Health: The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Northern Ireland has policy responsibility for the Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015, with the … Continue reading AQW 17952/22-27 – Imported, adulterated honey
Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Health whether he plans to introduce legislation to provide improved labelling of country of origin on jars of honey. Minister of Health: The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Northern Ireland holds policy responsibility for food compositional standards and labelling. Current rules require that all food … Continue reading AQW 17951/22-27 – Country of origin labelling on jars of honey
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