Food Banks
(asked on 17th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the numbers of people using foodbanks.
This question was answered on 20th April 2023
This Government is committed to understanding and addressing poverty which is why we have published official estimates of foodbank use for the first time. National statistics on food bank use for 2021/22 are available here. We aim to publish statistics for 2022/23 in March 2024.
The latest statistics show that in 2021/22, 93% of individuals were food secure.