Question follow-through · 32798
Food Banks: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the cost of living on recent demand for food banks in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the cost of living on recent demand for food banks in rural areas.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The latest statistics on food bank usage including data at a national and regional level can be found in the household food security tables located here: Family Resources Survey: financial year 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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