Food Poverty: Coronavirus

(asked on 8th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to alleviate food poverty levels in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 13th January 2021

This Government has taken significant action to ensure families receive the support they need during these challenging times, including boosting welfare support by billions of pounds and introducing the COVID Winter Grant Scheme, which is delivering £170 million of funding to councils in England to provide vital support to the most vulnerable children and families through this winter.

The Holiday Activities and Food programme will be expanded across England next year and the Department for Education will work closely with local authorities to prepare for delivery of the programme to begin at Easter. It is also increasing the value of Healthy Start vouchers by more than a third to help low income families. From April the value of vouchers will rise from £3.10 to £4.25.

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