Well, I'll use the word 'many', in which case we may reach a point where we agree. 

Three questions I'll pose: what happens when the children are ill or on holiday from school? Then, parents have to find 10 extra meals per week, per child. Is it any wonder that school holidays are the busiest times for foodbanks? I always remember the mother who told me how much she hated school holidays, not because of a need for childcare, but she knew how much extra food she was going to need during the holidays.

Secondly it is not just the school meals, the British Nutrition Foundation says that schools can play an important role in both promoting healthy eating habits among children and ensuring school food provides healthy, balanced and nutritious meals with the appropriate amount of energy and nutrients pupils need. Breakfast clubs, healthy tuck shops, school meals and packed lunches can make an important contribution to the energy and nutrient intake of children. It is crucial that there is a whole-school focus on healthy lifestyles, including the food provided to pupils, as well as the emphasis placed on healthy eating and nutrition throughout the different curriculum subjects. It is important that school food providers work together and the whole school community, from headteachers to parents, the cooks, the teachers and classroom assistants are all involved, in order to provide consistent messages for children to make healthier choices.

Thirdly, how does healthy food benefit children? Healthy eating can help children maintain a healthy weight, avoid certain health problems, stabilise their energy and sharpen their minds. A healthy diet can also have a profound effect on a child’s sense of mental and emotional well-being, helping to prevent conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Eating well can support a child’s healthy growth and development into adulthood and may even play a role in lowering the risk of suicide in young people. If a child has already been diagnosed with a mental health problem, a healthy diet can help the child to manage the symptoms and regain control of their health.

It’s important to remember that children aren’t born with a craving for French fries and pizza and an aversion to broccoli and carrots, and babies are fed with milk, not with chocolate. This conditioning happens over time as kids are exposed to more and more unhealthy food choices that are high in salt and high in sugar—things like chocolate—which they tend to then keep on craving. However, it is possible to reprogramme children’s food cravings so that they crave healthier foods instead. The sooner you introduce wholesome, nutritious choices into children’s diets, the easier they’ll be able to develop a healthy relationship with food that can, and hopefully will, last a lifetime.

Finally, we need to ensure children are fed well in schools because we have no control over how they are fed anywhere else. And so we need to get it right in the schools, and I'm very pleased that Jenny Rathbone has brought this forward and I'm very pleased to support it.