City restaurant subsidised by the state set to open next year

HEALTHY FOOD FOR DEPRIVED IN PILOT SCHEME

- By JOSIE CLARKE, PA

A STATE-SUBSIDISED restaurant is opening in Nottingham to provide deprived households with access to nutritious food, the Government has announced.

The restaurant, to open in the summer of next year, together with another in Dundee, will provide “universal access” to nutritious and sustainably produced food in social settings, and particularly meet the needs of deprived households with children, Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said.

The restaurant scheme is one of six newly announced projects that will receive £8.5 million in Government funding to tackle food inequality, including a mapping tool to direct a mobile greengrocer to visit areas of Liverpool where social housing residents have limited access to fresh fruit and vegetables.