SIR – Regarding Mr Green’s letter (T&A, April 16) I do have to point out to him that I know all the facts about the subject, Labour removed milk for children 11 and older in the previous administration.

Desperately seeking public spending cuts, the Cabinet under traitor Heath in the following Conservative administration, at the behest of the Treasury, decided that school milk was no longer necessary and could be abolished in its entirety, especially as Labour had started the abolition.

Margaret Thatcher, as Minister for Education, did not agree as is absolutely clear in the Cabinet notes released under the 30-year rule. While she couldn’t persuade the Cabinet to drop the idea, she did get it reduced to affect seven-to-11-year-olds only, keeping it for the under-sevens.

Labour completed the abolition during the public spending crisis of 1979, so if there is any ‘blame’ to apportion it is lies solely with Labour as they started and finished the process. If they hadn’t started it the Conservatives would never have continued it, simply because it would have been condemned as typical class-war Tory tactics.

Finally, I do have to ask which school did Mr Green attend, as very many people who are around my age can remember milk going off in the sun in the 1980s.

Emmerson Walgrove, Parkfield Road, Manningham