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date	19/01/2021
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Supermarkets: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to (a) encourage supermarkets to prioritise shielding customers and (b) discourage increases in costs of at-home deliveries.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	140257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>(a) Defra is continuing to work closely with supermarkets to provide clinically extremely vulnerable individuals in England with priority access to supermarket delivery slots. When the tiered system was in operation, any clinically extremely vulnerable person living in a Tier Three or Tier Four local area who did not already have priority access to delivery slots was still able to register for this support through the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcoronavirus-shielding-support&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cemma.pryor%40defra.gov.uk%7C05c014744ca84297bdbe08d8c219ea47%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C1%7C0%7C637472763850789169%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=KJVEOvim%2BoVc7ZofHPPptMkSYy5ykTUuktDYLUTPITY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/coronavirus-shielding-support</a>.</p><p>During the third lockdown, all clinically extremely vulnerable people are able to register for priority access to delivery slots with seven supermarkets: Asda, Iceland, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose. All clinically extremely vulnerable individuals who have registered through GOV.UK will retain their priority access to delivery slots until at least March 2021.</p><p>(b) Defra is continuing to hold regular conversations with each of the seven supermarkets participating in the priority access to online deliveries offer: Asda, Iceland, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose. The department uses these meetings as an opportunity to convey any concerns raised by charities or local authorities around topics such as delivery charges. Although Defra cannot legally dictate the delivery costs charged by supermarkets, our regular conversations ensure that supermarkets understand the impact that delivery charges can have in preventing a clinically extremely vulnerable person from being able to access food.</p><p>Alongside encouraging supermarkets to consider the impact delivery charges can have on vulnerable people, the department also monitors delivery charges and circulates this information to local authorities to allow them to advise their residents accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 27/01/2021 14:21:06 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

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registered interest
date	19/01/2021
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Supermarkets: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with supermarkets to ensure that they are covid-19 secure environments.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	140191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has covered Covid security issues in recent meetings with supermarket chief executives. This subject has also been a key focus of the regular forums that bring together officials and supermarket representatives. In all these meetings the supermarkets have emphasised their commitment to ensuring a Covid-secure environment for their customers and their staff. We will continue to work with them to support the steps they are taking to encourage customers to comply with Government rules and guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State also wrote to those working in our food and drink supply chains recently, thanking them for the work they have done throughout the pandemic.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 27/01/2021 17:04:39 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell