Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the accessibility of healthy food to families who are struggling with the cost of living crisis.

The Government recently announced a new £15 billion support package to help families with the cost of living, bringing the total support for households this year to £37 billion. This includes £1.5 billion to help with the cost of household essentials, such as food. The three Healthy Food Schemes, Healthy Start, the Nursery Milk Scheme and the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme provide nutritional assistance to more than three million children.