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Lords Chamber
Farmers: Flooding Compensation - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The right reverend Prelate is entirely right to raise the issue of food security, which is high on the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (XB - Life peer) rainfall illustrates that where flooding is occurring it is the result of streams and rivers breaching banks - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I come back to the right reverend Prelate’s question about food security. - Speech Link

Early Day Motion
Clothing poverty awareness (20 Signatures)
7 Dec 2023
Tabled by: Apsana Begum (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
That this House notes with concern that rising numbers of people are unable to afford adequate clothing in the United Kingdom, that the demand for clothing banks has increased dramatically and is particularly acute during winter months and that even despite the best efforts of clothing banks clothing deprivation is …
Westminster Hall
Household Support Fund - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) “On the Isle of Wight we have used some of HSF to provide much needed funds for…food banks so they can - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) banks, such as the Hillingdon food bank in 2009. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Edwards (Lab - Tamworth) banks across the country. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member for Tamworth (Sarah Edwards) mentioned food banks; I will speak about my food bank, to give some - Speech Link

Select Committee
Alexandra Rose Charity
 FDO0039 - Food, Diet and Obesity

Written Evidence May. 22 2024

Inquiry: Food, Diet and Obesity
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee

Found: FDO0039 - Food, Diet and Obesity Alexandra Rose Charity Written Evidence

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) Citizens Advice Cymru has stated that during 2023, it referred over 21,000 people to food banks in Wales - Speech Link
2: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) When I visit food banks, I am told that all sorts of people have to go and visit food banks on a temporary - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) Government have put in place measures to prevent repossessions, and a UK Labour Government would require banks - Speech Link
4: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) warn that new Brexit border checks will increase the cost of fresh imports by £330 million and worsen food - Speech Link

Select Committee
HM Government
 NDS0047 - National Disability Strategy

Written Evidence May. 29 2024

Inquiry: National Disability Strategy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Authority should work with the retail banking sector and organisations such as the RNIB to ensure all banks

Select Committee
Large print - Accessibility of products and services to disabled people: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report

Government Response May. 29 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Authority should work with the retail banking sector and organisations such as the RNIB to ensure all banks

Select Committee
Accessibility of products and services to disabled people: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report

Government Response May. 29 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Authority should work with the retail banking sector and organisations such as the RNIB to ensure all banks

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Jan. 31 2024

Source Page: The Environment Strategy for Scotland. Delivering the Environment Strategy Outcome on Scotland's Economy: Evidence Base & Policy Levers
Document: Appendix 3 - Nature Positive Sources (PDF)

Found: cultural significance Quantify biodiversity- related expenditures of  governments and public  development banks

Written Question
Household Support Fund
Wednesday 7th February 2024

Asked by: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government what contingency plans are in place to address the potential increase in demand for services such as food banks in the event of the discontinuation of the Household Support Fund after March 2024.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The current Household Support Fund runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024, and the government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.

The Government is putting significant additional support in place for those on the lowest incomes from April. Subject to Parliamentary approval, working age benefits will rise by 6.7% while the Basic and New State Pensions will be uprated by 8.5% in line with earnings, as part of the ‘triple lock”.

To further support low-income households with increasing rent costs, the government will raise Local Housing Allowance rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents, benefitting 1.6m low-income households by on average £800 a year in 24/25. Additionally, the Government will increase the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 years and over by 9.8% to £11.44 representing an increase of over £1,800 to the gross annual earnings of a full-time worker on the National Living Wage.