Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will hold discussions with food bank providers on the potential merits of publishing data on the number of people who used a foodbank on at least one occasion in every month of (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

This government takes the issue of food security very seriously and is committed to understanding and addressing food poverty which is why we published official estimates of foodbank use for the first time in March 2023.

The next release of the Households Below Average Income statistics, covering the year 2022/23, is due in March 2024. This will include updated national statistics on both food security and food bank use.