Mentions:
1: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) Can the Minister explain why the number of elderly individuals resorting to food banks has doubled in - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) In 2023, 1% of low-income pensioners lived in a household that had accessed a food bank within 12 months - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) In 2023, 1% of low-income pensioners lived in a household that had accessed a food bank within 12 months - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) The Trussell Trust, however, says it has seen a 36% rise in pensioners turning to food banks in the past - Speech Link
5: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) National Statistics, show that 1% of low-income pensioners live in a household that has accessed a food - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) double-counting that goes on when the current rules are applied to building societies, in contrast to banks - Speech Link
2: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) The Bill would enable building societies to compete on a level playing field with banks. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) We agree that the Bill will enable building societies to compete more effectively with retail banks and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) that sector, too, but services is a sector not affected by the serious issues that I raised of rotting food - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) and Rural Affairs and the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will ensure that the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has heard the particular - Speech Link
4: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) telephone banking or internet banking, but many people—mainly vulnerable people—depend on high street banks - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is in everyone’s interests, including banks’ interests, that constituents can access those services - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) I utterly refuse, because I will not give the banks the opportunity to say that they have now mopped - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) and that that requires skills.We have seen some movement from the Government in acknowledging that food - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) very little since Victorian times; filling our heads with facts so that students go off to work in banks - Speech Link
4: Baroness Valentine (XB - Life peer) It provides food for families, clothes and a safe place for parents to learn cooking skills. - Speech Link
5: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Food education is paramount because you are what you eat; your gut is your second brain and what you - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) food on our tables, while protecting the environment. - Speech Link
2: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) We also recognise the importance of food security. My right hon. - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) Gentleman raises in relation to the UN, but we are clear about the importance of food production, food - Speech Link
4: Damien Moore (Con - Southport) investment into drainage capacity for water, but unfortunately the villages of Tarleton, Hesketh Bank and Banks - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Harriett Baldwin (Con - West Worcestershire) It is owned and run by the banks, which raises questions about conflicts of interests in the first place - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) What conversations is the Secretary of State having with supermarkets about holding down the cost of food - Speech Link
2: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) I know that many supermarkets are supporting food banks within their local areas, and the UK Government - Speech Link
3: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) I very much welcome the River Wye action plan, which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Speech Link
4: Shailesh Vara (Con - North West Cambridgeshire) The coroner’s inquest has not yet reported, but on average, two children in every class have a food allergy - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) That would not only cut costs for businesses but stop food prices rising even more. - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) Does the Minister agree that banks should offer more discretion when looking at victims of fraud, and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Healey (Lab - Wentworth and Dearne) life and morale have fallen to record lows, and when military families live in damp housing and use food - Speech Link
2: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) participants in this debate, a far wider spectrum of policy—not just cyber-security but energy security, food - Speech Link
3: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) the numbers of personnel and veterans on universal credit are rising, and some troops are even using food - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) experiencing food insecurity. - Speech Link
2: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) We were hungry.If parents who are working have to use a food bank to put food on the table, what does - Speech Link