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1196140

registered interest
date	15/05/2020
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	Food: 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 estimate he has made of the number of people identified as being clinically extremely vulnerable to covid-19 who have registered (a) to indicate that they require support getting the food and/or other essentials they need and (b) but do not require support; and how many of those vulnerable people are receiving food and basic supplies through (i) supermarket deliveries, (ii) Government or local authority food parcels and (iii) other support.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	47265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2020 answer text <p>The shielding programme was put in place to protect clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people – those who have been advised by the NHS not to leave their homes, because they are at a high risk of developing complications from coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. Overall 2.2 million individuals have been identified as needing to shield. Of this group, approximately 350,000 have registered a need for essential supplies making the individual eligible for a priority slot for a supermarket delivery or food boxes, which they may cancel at any time.</p><p>In total over 2 million food boxes have been successfully delivered to CEV individuals since March. We are continuing to work with supermarkets to increase delivery capacity.</p><p>We do not hold centrally information on deliveries of food parcels by local authorities, total number of individuals benefiting from supermarket deliveries, or other support received by CEV individuals.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 26/05/2020 14:51:18 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

1195674

registered interest
date	13/05/2020
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	Food: 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 steps he is taking to maintain supply chains for independent, small food retailers during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	46532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2020 answer text <p>We welcome the actions that the convenience sector is taking, including increasing home deliveries, supporting vulnerable customers by offering more flexible payment options, and adjusting product ranges to manage changes in consumer buying habits. Small retailers play a vital role in ensuring people have access to the food they need, particularly in isolated and rural communities.</p><p> </p><p>The UK food sector has adapted quickly to unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 outbreak to ensure people have the food and products they need. We are confident in the resilience of the UK food supply chain.</p><p> </p><p>To help industry, the Government introduced several regulatory easements to keep food supply flowing. These include asking local authorities to show flexibility to allow extended delivery hours and flexing rules on drivers’ hours to allow a higher frequency of deliveries to stores.</p><p> </p><p>Since the COVID-19 outbreak, we have intensified our discussions with the food industry, bringing together stakeholders from across the supply chain. We are monitoring the ongoing challenges of in-store stock with the Association of Convenience Stores. We are also monitoring the service levels from manufacturers to wholesalers supplying the small retail sector and supermarkets which show an improving picture.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with the industry.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 21/05/2020 10:35:26 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1195677

registered interest
date	13/05/2020
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	Food: 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 steps he is taking to ensure that produce delivered to clinically extremely vulnerable people is healthy and nutritious.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	46534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2020 answer text <p>Shielding packages contain a basic selection of food and other essential items. They are a standardised package designed to be suitable for the majority of people and deliver the nutritional requirements for one person for one week, as reviewed by nutritionists and key industry groups.</p><p> </p><p>Because the packages are standardised, some of the products they contain may not be suitable for everyone. In such instances, we are encouraging people to contact their local authority or to supplement their food package with the necessary items by using the offer of priority access to online supermarket delivery slots for clinically extremely vulnerable people.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 21/05/2020 09:32:44 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1193133

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
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	Food: 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, how many people in the covid-19 shielding group receive a Government food parcel every week.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	43667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>Currently, over 290,000 food boxes are being delivered to the COVID-19 shielding group each week in England.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 11/05/2020 09:13:49 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1192623

registered interest
date	04/05/2020
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	Food: 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, if he will publish the organisations and companies that received contracts from the Government to deliver food supplies to people considered clinically vulnerable during the covid-19 outbreak; and on what date each contract was entered into.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	43032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>Bidfood and Brakes both received Defra contracts to deliver food parcels to the clinically vulnerable. Contracts commenced on 27 March 2020 under letters of intent and formal contracts were signed on 24 April 2020.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 11/05/2020 15:36:21 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1192034

registered interest
date	01/05/2020
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	Food: 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 assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on (a) the viability of the food and drink wholesale sector and (b) food provision in (i) care homes, (ii) prisons, (iii) hospitals and (iv) other public sector institutions over the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	42112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>Defra is monitoring the potential impacts COVID-19 is having on the food and drink wholesale sector, in partnership with industry and other Government departments. We remain committed to working with industry to respond to these challenges as they evolve and to assess whether current support mechanisms are sufficient and effective.</p><p> </p><p>Defra is working very closely with officials from the Department of Health and Social Care, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Department for Education and the Ministry of Defence on ensuring food supply continues to schools, prisons, hospitals and other public sector institutions over the next 12 months. To support care homes, the Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD)has set up a new online portal Food2Care (<a href="http://www.Food2Care.co.uk" target="_blank">www.Food2Care.co.uk</a>) to enable care homes to find local wholesalers, based on a postcode search. The website is also highlighted on the Care Providers Association website. This portal will help those care homes struggling to get supplies during the Covid-19 outbreak. More than 90 national and regional wholesalers have signed up to the scheme so far.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, FWD's initiative, Local Food Drops (<a href="http://www.localfooddrops.co.uk" target="_blank">www.localfooddrops.co.uk</a>), has been designed to help local communities get better access to food supplies during these unprecedented times with flexible delivery and 'click and collect' options.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 12/05/2020 11:40:26 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1190508

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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	Food: 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 financial support has been made available to the food and drink wholesale sector during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	40827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer has set out a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19. The measures available to food and drink wholesale businesses depend on their size, and include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for furloughing of staff;</li><li>Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan;</li><li>Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan;</li><li>Covid-19 Corporate Financing Facility;</li><li>Statutory sick pay relief package for SMEs with fewer than 250 employees;</li><li>Value Added Tax (VAT) deferral to the end of June;</li><li>HMRC Time To Pay Scheme;</li><li>Eviction protection for commercial tenants;</li><li>£10,000 cash grant for all business in receipt of Small Business Rates Relief and Rural Rates Relief</li></ul><p> </p><p>From 4 May, the Bounce Back Loan Scheme will be available to small businesses, who will be able to borrow between £2,000 and £50,000 with a 100% Government-backed guarantee for lenders.</p><p> </p><p>With counterparts across Whitehall, and through engagement with industry, we are monitoring the potential impacts COVID 19 on the food and drink wholesale sector. We remain committed to working in partnership with industry to respond to these challenges as they evolve.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 05/05/2020 13:46:41 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1190510

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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	Food: 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, if he will provide financial support to food and drink wholesale businesses that are affected by the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	40830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer has already set out a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by COVID-19. The measures available to food and drink wholesale businesses depend on their size, and include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for furloughing of staff;</li><li>Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan;</li><li>Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan;</li><li>Covid-19 Corporate Financing Facility;</li><li>Statutory sick pay relief package for SMEs with fewer than 250 employees;</li><li>Value Added Tax (VAT) deferral to the end of June;</li><li>HMRC Time To Pay Scheme;</li><li>Eviction protection for commercial tenants;</li><li>£10,000 cash grant for all business in receipt of Small Business Rates Relief and Rural Rates Relief</li></ul><p> </p><p>From 4 May, the Bounce Back Loan Scheme will be available to small businesses, who will be able to borrow between £2,000 and £50,000 with a 100% Government-backed guarantee for lenders.</p><p> </p><p>With counterparts across Whitehall, and through engagement with industry, we are monitoring the potential impacts COVID 19 on the food and drink wholesale sector. We remain committed to working in partnership with industry to respond to these challenges as they evolve.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 05/05/2020 13:43:12 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1190085

registered interest
date	24/04/2020
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	Food: 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, how many Government-supplied food parcels have been delivered (a) nationally (b) to City of York council in each week since 1 March 2020.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	39588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>(A) Nationally <strong>955,433</strong> food packs had been successfully delivered as of 30<sup>th</sup> April 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Breakdown by weeks is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Week Commencing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful Deliveries</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23<sup>rd</sup> March</p></td><td><p>4,334</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30<sup>th</sup> March</p></td><td><p>66,659</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6<sup>th</sup> April</p></td><td><p>141,477</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13<sup>th</sup> April</p></td><td><p>194,391</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20<sup>th</sup> April</p></td><td><p>286,605</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27<sup>th</sup> April</p></td><td><p>261,967</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(B) In the City of York over <strong>5,231</strong> food packs had been successfully delivered as of the 24<sup>th</sup> April 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Breakdown by week is as follows:</p><p>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Week Commencing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful Deliveries</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>*6<sup>th</sup> April</p></td><td><p>1,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13<sup>th</sup> April</p></td><td><p>1,777</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20<sup>th</sup> April</p></td><td><p>2,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Different category codes were used for deliveries made prior to 6<sup>th</sup> April, so they have been excluded from the figures above.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 04/05/2020 16:55:21 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1189781

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
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	Food: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide access to land to individuals and communities seeking to establish individual or community food growing schemes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL3298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government values green spaces such as allotments and considers them to be an important community asset, particularly during the COVID-19 outbreak. Allotments play an important role in helping people to live a healthy and active lifestyle and in providing food.</p><p> </p><p>Local councils have a statutory duty under Section 23 of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908 to provide a sufficient number of allotments based on local demand in an area and to let them to people residing in that area who want them. The provision of allotment spaces is the responsibility of local councils as they are best placed to determine the demand in their area.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government" target="_blank">Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government</a> published a best practice guide for community groups wanting to find land to grow fruit and vegetables. This is available on the GOV.UK website at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/space-for-food-growing-a-guide" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/space-for-food-growing-a-guide</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Government Association also provides guidance on allotments and community food growing schemes in its “Growing in the community” guidance, which is available online at: <a href="http://www.local.gov.uk/growing-community-second-edition" target="_blank">www.local.gov.uk/growing-community-second-edition</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 05/05/2020 16:19:18 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle