Question follow-through · 46249
Social Security Benefits: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Spring Statement 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of welfare reforms on demand for food banks.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Spring Statement 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of welfare reforms on demand for food banks.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
Since 2021, food bank use has been measured in official statistics by the number of individuals living in families that have used foodbanks in the past 30 days and 12 months. These are published on Stat-Xplore ( https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/), including...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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