Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that retailers receive the list of vulnerable peoples in order to support online deliveries.

There are some clinical conditions which put people at an even higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19 due to complex health problems. These clinically extremely vulnerable people have been advised to shield themselves by staying at home at all times.

Wherever possible, those shielding should rely on friends, family and wider community support to help them with any essential activities like shopping. Where this is not possible those shielding are eligible for food delivery which they register for via the web or by phone. Once these individuals have registered, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government provides the details of all those eligible to supermarkets so that they are given priority for online deliveries.