Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the geographic coverage of food banks throughout the UK.

The Department has not made any assessment of the geographical coverage of food banks in the UK. Details of the geographical locations of food banks in the Trussell Trust network can be accessed through the following link:-

https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-help/find-a-foodbank/

The Independent Food Aid Network is currently undertaking an exercise to map independent food banks, details of which can be accessed through the following link:-

http://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/mapping