questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of people in food poverty.
answerText: The latest statistics show that in 2021/22, 7% (4.7m) of all individuals lived in food insecure households. For working age adults this figure was 7% (2.9m), for children it was 12% (1.7m) and for pensioners it was 1% (0.2m).  Foodbanks are independent, c...
heading: Food Poverty