To bring together parliamentarians from all parties with an interest in and commitment to ending the need for food banks; discussing the solutions that are needed; making recommendations to the relevant government departments that are key to ending the need for food banks.
1. Trussell Trust - written evidence
03/07/2019 - Inquiry: School holiday poverty - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: 420 food banks providing a minimum of three days’ worth of nutritionally-balanced emergency food and
2. Bangor University - written evidence
05/12/2018 - Inquiry: Welfare safety net - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: Bangor University (WSN0004) The acknowledge rise of food insecurity is understood to be associated with the
3. Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment
02/02/2020 - Inquiry: Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment - Food, Poverty, Health and Environment Committee
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Found: British Academy and Leverhulme Foundation: ‘Emergency Food Provision in the UK’, grant number: SG131950
Summary
4. Food Banks
27/01/2021 - APPGs
Found: interest in and commitment to ending the need for food banks; discussing the solutions that are needed; making
5. stop the closure of food banks and shelters in lockdown
02/11/2020 - Petitions
Found: thurday, Novermber 5 th the government is closing food banks and shelters as they are listed as ‘non-essential’
1. Food Poverty: Scotland
07/05/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: to eat cold baked beans from a can in her local food bank. Hayley Squires’ powerful performance as Katie - Speech Link
2: because the wages have not matched the rises in food prices.International research has also found - Speech Link
2. Right to Food in Legislation
21/10/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: That this House has considered the right to food in legislation.I called this debate because - Speech Link
3. Inequality
03/10/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: years we have seen a huge rise in the number of food banks across the United Kingdom. The Trussell Trust’s - Speech Link
2: million children in food-insecure households. However, I accept his point about food banks. As he will know - Speech Link
3: universal credit. It also has one of the largest food banks in the United Kingdom. I have warmly welcomed - Speech Link
4. Poverty in Liverpool
24/10/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: children had to rely on the generosity of our city’s food banks, and in the same period Liverpool City Council - Speech Link
5. Food Poverty: Merseyside
16/01/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: beg to move,That this House has considered food poverty in Merseyside.It is a pleasure to - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Neil Coyle MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7232 4640.
Email: neil.coyle.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Graeme Smith, Office of Neil Coyle MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 7650
Email: graeme.smith@parliament.uk
Secretariat:
The Trussell Trust acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.trusselltrust.org/
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Food Banks APPG