PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Click and Collect Services and Retail Trade: Coronavirus (11 February 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what comparative assessment he has had made of the difference in covid-19 transmission rates for in-store shopping and click and collect services.

Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)

Throughout the national restrictions, we have sought to keep as much of the retail sector open as possible, whilst balancing the need to reduce our day-to-day contact. All along we have taken evidence from SAGE into account when making decisions.

Click-and-collect services allow goods to be pre-ordered and collected without customers entering the premises. Customers thus remain in well ventilated spaces - which are, by definition, safer environments and where transmission is less likely to occur.

Answered by:
Paul Scully (Conservative)
26 February 2021