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1015058

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	195616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in December 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 29/11/2018 11:12:08 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1037851

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	206449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 16/01/2019 15:22:20 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1043052

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in February 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	209857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 21/01/2019 10:31:14 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1058960

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	219559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 13/02/2019 10:54:22 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1105561

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Independent Food Aid Network report, published in March 2019, that found in Scotland between April 2017 and September 2018, more than double the number of food parcels were given out than previously estimated.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	237731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>We welcome any research aimed at improving our understanding of the nature and extent of food bank use. We recognise the data limitations in this area and that is why the Department for Work and Pensions has been working with a number of food security experts, the Office for National Statistics and the Scottish Government to introduce a new set of food security questions into the Family Resources Survey (FRS) from April.</p><p> </p><p>In the short term we are exploring how we can build on current good practice to make it as easy as possible for food banks to identify and refer back to the local Jobcentre any customers who may, for a variety of reasons, not be receiving the full formal support to which they are entitled.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to a strong safety-net for those who need it; we spend over £95 billion a year on welfare benefits for people of working age including a well-established system of hardship payments, benefit advances and budgeting loans as an additional safeguard for those who need it.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 14:37:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1109019

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the level of foodbank use in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
	uin	240070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions has not made an assessment of the levels of foodbank use in Scotland.</p><p>The welfare system provides a strong safety net for those who need it, spending over £95 billion a year on welfare benefits for people of working age. This includes a well-established system of hardship payments, benefit advances and budgeting loans as an additional safeguard for those who need them.</p><p> </p><p>Jobcentre mangers have discretion to work with food banks in their local area; and we are exploring how to build on current good practice to make it as easy as possible for food banks to identify and refer back to the local Jobcentre any customers who may not be receiving the full formal support to which they are entitled</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/04/2019 15:57:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1109061

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	240089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 08/04/2019 16:39:02 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1122103

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	245950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in May 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/04/2019 10:39:59 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1133263

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in June 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	266882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in June 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/06/2019 10:11:07 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1134136

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in July 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	268559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in July 2019.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 26/06/2019 12:16:27 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden