Food Banks: Greater Manchester
(asked on 20th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of food parcels distributed by food banks in (a) Salford and (b) Worsley and Eccles South in 2018-19.
This question was answered on 23rd January 2020
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.
In order to develop a better understanding of the drivers of food insecurity and identify which groups are most at risk we have introduced a new set of food security questions in the Family Resources Survey questionnaire from April 2019 onwards.