Question follow-through · 49864
Food Supply and Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential cost to the public purse of (a) food insecurity and (b) economic hardship.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential cost to the public purse of (a) food insecurity and (b) economic hardship.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
It is unacceptable that people are falling into hardship and using foodbanks. This is why we have committed to tackling poverty and ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Our plan for Making Work Pay and our Get Britain Working White Paper, alo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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