division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [11th Allotted Day] &#8212; Food Banks
motion: <p class="" pid="b.1480.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.1480.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes that the number of people using food banks, according to the Trussell Trust, has increased from 41,000 in 2009-10 to 913,000 in 2013-14, of whom one third are children; recognises that over the last four years prices have risen faster than wages; further notes that low pay and failings in the operation of the social security system continue to be the main triggers for food bank use; and calls on the Government to bring forward measures to reduce dependency on food banks and tackle the cost of living crisis, including to get a grip on delays and administrative problems in the benefits system, and introduce a freeze in energy prices, a national water affordability scheme, measures to end abuses of zero hours contracts, incentives for companies to pay a living wage, an increase in the minimum wage to &#163;8 an hour by the end of the next Parliament, a guaranteed job for all young people who are out of work for more than a year and 25 hours-a-week free childcare for all working parents of three and four year olds.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1519.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Question put accordingly (<phrase class="standing-order" code="31(2)" pwmotiontext="yes">Standing Order No. 31(2)</phrase>), That the original words stand part of the Question.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.1519.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1519.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 237, Noes 293.</p>