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Article: Council vote reaffirms policy on free school meals

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July 21, 2006
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Maggie Stratton

COUNCILLORS in Hull last night backed a call to continue giving every primary pupil in the city a free school meal.

Hull's Labour council became the first in England to offer free meals to all primary age children when a pilot scheme began in 2004.

The [Pounds]3.5m pilot scheme is due to end next May but its future was plunged into uncertainty when the new Liberal Democrat administration announced plans to scrap it.

But after a council meeting yesterday, Labour claimed victory as councillors voted 29 to 25 in favour of reaffirming the policy on healthy and free school meals "as a way of ensuring universal benefits throughout the city".

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