Great to see that the legacy of Eat Well Do Well continues to have ramifications across the UK.
The Scottish Executive, having studied our universal school meals programme, will today provide free lunch for more than 35,000 primary school children for six months in five areas across Scotland.
I seriously believe that the Hull pilot will be held up as a turning point in the fight against child obesity.
The University of Hull evaluation of Eat Well Do Well will be out this year, which should confirm the initial findings that pupils' concentration and readiness to learn was improving.
Hopefully this study will spark a real debate into what we can do to give our children life-long healthy eating habits and what price we're prepared to pay for it.
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