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Healthy and Sustainable Food

Thursday 10 September 2020 · 1 question

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Answered 1 Partly answered 0 Not answered 0

Key points

  • Ian Byrne asked about steps being taken to ensure accessibility of healthy and sustainable food.
  • The government allocated 63 million in July 2020 for emergency local welfare provision to combat food poverty.
  • Interventions include the free school meals voucher system which operated over the summer.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Ian Byrne Lab Liverpool West Derby
Benefits & Welfare Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Context

The MP is concerned about the accessibility of healthy and sustainable food, particularly during a recession.

Question

What steps he is taking to ensure the accessibility of (a) healthy and (b) sustainable food. Local welfare provision can be a lifeline for families on the brink of food poverty, with £63 million allocated in July 2020 as emergency support which will expire in October.

Answer from George Eustice (The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We have put in place a number of interventions to help people struggling with food affordability, particularly in lockdown and its aftermath. We continue to keep all these policies under review. We have the free school meals voucher system that ran over the summer, and there are other measures we have been working on with local authorities.

Answered

Not addressed: No future funding specifics were provided.

How: Continuing To Keep Policies Under Review

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