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Record Ref : FOI 11733
Date Received : 27/10/2025
Date Completed : 20/11/2025
Organisation : Countryside Alliance
Application Type : Company
Category : Education Services
Question
Re: Regarding chicken and chicken products supplied for school meals in your local authority’s maintained schools. Please provide data for the most recent academic year for which records are available. 1. Sourcing by Origin Please state, as a percentage or volume if available, the proportion of chicken (including all chicken products such as nuggets, roast chicken, chicken burgers, etc.) used in school meals that is: • (a) Produced and reared in Wales • (b) Produced and reared in the rest of the UK (outside Wales) • (c) Produced and reared outside the UK, but in the EU • (d) Produced and reared outside the UK and outside the EU If precise percentages are unavailable, please indicate whether any chicken is sourced from each of these categories (e.g., “yes/no/unknown”). 2. Regarding supplier, please indicate whether they are required under contract to source UK or Welsh-origin chicken only.
Answer
1. Sourcing by Origin Please state, as a percentage or volume if available, the proportion of chicken (including all chicken products such as nuggets, roast chicken, chicken burgers, etc.) used in school meals that is: • (a) Produced and reared in Wales 0.00% • (b) Produced and reared in the rest of the UK (outside Wales) 0.00% • (c) Produced and reared outside the UK, but in the EU 0.65% • (d) Produced and reared outside the UK and outside the EU 99.35% If precise percentages are unavailable, please indicate whether any chicken is sourced from each of these categories (e.g., “yes/no/unknown”). 2. Regarding supplier, please indicate whether they are required under contract to source UK or Welsh-origin chicken only. Our suppliers are not required to source UK/Welsh chicken only, and due to availability of Welsh/UK poultry, we have been advised they would find it difficult to supply consistently as the majority of Welsh/UK available is used by retail. For the sourcing of fresh and cooked meat (Lot 3) on the WPSCFG Food Framework, the country of origin for poultry was stipulated as UK or EU. There was no stipulation made for frozen processed poultry products such as nuggets, burgers, goujons, etc.