Food Banks

(asked on 16th June 2015) - View Source

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 effects of the benefits sanctions and conditionality regime on use of food banks.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
This question was answered on 22nd June 2015

We have looked at this issue extensively and we agree with the conclusion reached by the All Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger, that the reasons for food bank use are complex and overlapping. There is no robust evidence that directly links sanctions and Food Bank use.

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