Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 87741

Families: Food Poverty

Tabled: 4 November 2025
Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support families with food poverty in winter 2025-26.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The UK Government is committed to tackling poverty and ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Universal Credit is claimed by more than 8.2 million people across the UK and we are committed to reviewing it to make sure it is doing the job we wan...
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