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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 84269, tabled on 2 September 2020

Question

Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
Labour
South Shields
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish her Department's evidence review on the drivers of food bank usage.

Answer

Will Quince
Conservative
Colchester
Commons

Answered on

7 September 2020

The Department reallocated resources to prioritise work to helping the COVID-19 effort. As such, we will update on the literature review on the factors driving the use of food banks in due course.

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Department for Work and Pensions
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