Means-tested Benefits: Food Banks
(asked on 24th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of families receiving income-related benefits that used food banks in the last 12 months; and what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that estimate.
This question was answered on 29th March 2023
National statistics on food bank use for 2021/22 are available here. We aim to publish statistics for 2022/23 in March 2024.
The statistics show that in 2021/22 11% of households in receipt of any income-related benefits had used a food bank in the 12 months prior to the survey.