Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 5724

Food Poverty

Tabled: 12 September 2024

Answered: 10 October 2024

Question

Mr Connor Rand

Labour — Altrincham and Sale West

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the child poverty taskforce will examine food insecurity.

Answer

Alison McGovern

We are committed to tackling poverty and reducing mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Our Ministerial Taskforce, jointly chaired Work and Pensions and Education Secretaries, has started urgent work on an ambitious Child Poverty Strategy and will ex...

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