Food Banks: NHS

(asked on 29th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the extent of the use of food banks by NHS workers.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 5th May 2020

No such assessment had been made; the Government does not collect data on the number of food parcels distributed by food banks and there is no official data on food bank use in the UK.

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