Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for trends in the level of the use of food banks in the last five years.

Foodbanks are independent, charitable organisations and the Department does not have any role in their operation.

The latest statistics on foodbank usage can be found in the household food security data tables found here -

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-2022-to-2023