Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate with Cabinet colleagues of the trend in the number of people who have eaten cold food due to the cost of cooking hot food.

The independent Food Standards Agency has published a monthly Consumer Insights Tracker survey since April 2020, which is available at the following link:

https://www.food.gov.uk/research/behaviour-and-perception/consumer-insights-tracker