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1: Baroness Andrews (Lab - Life peer) The Trussell Trust has been measuring the increasing dependence of disabled people on food banks, for - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The royal college says:“This increase is driven by serious issues such as poverty, housing and food insecurity - Speech Link
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1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) position get worse, 49% had struggled to pay essential bills, and shockingly, 25% had struggled to buy food - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) Previously he was heavily involved with me in the all-party parliamentary group on ending the need for food - Speech Link
3: Zarah Sultana (Lab - Coventry South) found that half the women surveyed struggled to pay essential bills, and one in four struggled to put food - Speech Link
4: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) this was a large amount of money, somebody said that we had just paid out £500 billion to bail out the banks - Speech Link
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1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) It reported that more than 3.1 million emergency food parcels were provided by food banks in its network - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The large share of people who were going to food banks under the last Labour Government were being transferred - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) banks doubled after the Government’s economic mismanagement—up 101% in my constituency. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Most banks require six-month minimum tenancies to lend in the first place. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) forestry workers fails to address the wider diversified rural business need, where parks, gardens, hotels, food - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) It is clear that the Bill has given us all food for thought and that we will have our work cut out during - Speech Link
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1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) As I have repeatedly said from this Dispatch Box, it is imperative that banks and building societies - Speech Link
2: Rosena Allin-Khan (Lab - Tooting) Israel has blocked vital aid, turned off water supplies and denied access to food. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) The clear message from yesterday’s Farm to Fork summit is that food security matters. - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Like him, I agree that we should be backing British farmers to produce more food. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Despite asking numerous questions of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, I am still - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) There were staff and people in the community who had not been paid and were eating from food banks. - Speech Link
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
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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