Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will enable food banks to distribute instant formula baby milk during the covid-19 outbreak.
Food banks are independent charitable organisations and, as such, are best placed to decide on the most appropriate arrangements for supporting people who use them.
Food banks already offer a wider range of goods depending on availability, which can include formula milk.
The Healthy Start scheme provides vouchers for lower-income families which can be exchanged for fruit, vegetables, milk, infant formula and free vitamins.