Healthy school meals drive 'failing', say Lib Dems

The Liberal Democrats have today attacked the government's failure to get more children eating healthy school meals.

According to figures obtained in response to a Lib Dem parliamentary question, almost two-thirds of secondary, and around 60% of primary school pupils, are shunning school meals.

The government is now below its 2009 target to get more children to take up healthy school meals by almost one million children - 511,000 below target for secondary schools and 473,000 below target in primary schools, the Lib Dems said.