| A number of this year's longlisted authors have appeared on previous IPAF longlists and shortlists.Five women appear on the longlist, the highest number so far. |
| There were nine main awards and final shortlists were selected by independent jury panels. |
| Shortlists are available for regional food, specialty food stores and holiday food stores. |
| Leicester MP Keith Vaz, chairman of Labour's Ethnic Minority Taskforce, is spearheading the plans to change the law to allow the new shortlists. |
| Labour introduced its controversial all-women shortlists to encourage more women into Parliament, but the policy has been unpopular with grassroots supporters. |
| He believes the regional board may have misinterpreted the rule book and was under the mistaken belief that the party was insisting on shortlists of two candidates. |
