Food: Coronavirus

(asked on 24th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Government-supplied food parcels have been delivered (a) nationally (b) to City of York council in each week since 1 March 2020.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 4th May 2020

(A) Nationally 955,433 food packs had been successfully delivered as of 30th April 2020.

Breakdown by weeks is as follows:

Week Commencing

Successful Deliveries

23rd March

4,334

30th March

66,659

6th April

141,477

13th April

194,391

20th April

286,605

27th April

261,967

(B) In the City of York over 5,231 food packs had been successfully delivered as of the 24th April 2020.

Breakdown by week is as follows:

.

Week Commencing

Successful Deliveries

*6th April

1,266

13th April

1,777

20th April

2,188

*Different category codes were used for deliveries made prior to 6th April, so they have been excluded from the figures above.

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