Question follow-through · 86140
Food Banks: Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of foodbank use by (a) working age and (b) pension age people in Poole constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of foodbank use by (a) working age and (b) pension age people in Poole constituency.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
Statistics on food bank use by working-age and pension-age people are published annually in the Households below average income statistics report. The most recent publication is available here: Households below average income: for financial years ending 1...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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