Question follow-through · 962
Food Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting a target for the level of food bank usage by the end of this Parliament.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting a target for the level of food bank usage by the end of this Parliament.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jul 2024
Answer published
We are committed to tackling poverty and ending the mass dependence on emergency food parcels. We will be considering the best way to achieve these important objectives over the coming weeks and months working through the new Ministerial Taskforce on Chil...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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