The Government must ‘step up and do something’ amid growing need among the public, the Trussell Trust’s Helen Barnard said.
The Trussell Trust said food banks have given out a record 1.5 million emergency parcels in a six-month period
The director of policy, research and insight at the organisation, which has a network of more than 1,300 food banks across the UK, also described how those who use its facilities do so as a “last resort” – contrary to comments by Conservative MP Lee Anderson who last month played down “this poverty nonsense”.
“There wasn’t any hope in the King’s Speech for the people that we’re seeing in our communities. So we need the Government in the autumn statement to show that they recognise what’s going on, and that they’re going to take responsibility.” “We’ve got the autumn statement coming up. They need to make sure they raise benefits, at least by inflation. And give extra help by reducing the burden of debt deductions, which the majority of people coming to our food banks are having knocked off their benefits.”
At the event, he said: “I don’t believe all this nonsense about, you know, you know my stance on the food poverty stuff… This poverty nonsense. Go in a time machine back into when I was growing up in the Seventies, that was real poverty… It’s nonsense now, it’s absolute nonsense.” “So by the time people come to a food bank, generally they have already used up any savings they might have had. They’ve drawn on friends and family, they’ve got into debt, they’ve gone without multiple essentials.Ms Barnard’s comments come as the Trussell Trust said food banks have given out a record 1.5 million emergency parcels in a six-month period, including for tens of thousands of first-time users, in statistics it described as “extremely alarming”.
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