Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the saving to the public purse as a result of suspending the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme from March to September 2020; and how those funds have been allocated.

The saving to the public purse as a result of suspending the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme from for the final two weeks of the spring term and the whole of the summer term 2020 was just over £10 million.

The funding for the Scheme which was not spent during the suspension was used to support other Government priorities during the pandemic.