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 proportion of households in receipt of Carer’s Allowance living in food insecurity in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Midlothian constituency.

Statistics on the number of individuals living in households that are food insecure by receipt of state support in the UK are published annually in the “Family Resources Survey” publication in “table 9_7” of “household food security tables” found here.

The latest statistics published on 21 March 2024 are for the financial period 2022/23. The

latest available data can also be found on Stat-Xplore here.

No such assessment can be made for Scotland and the Midlothian constituency due to sample sizes and availability of data.