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<p>The Honourable Member’s Bill is scheduled for Second Reading on Friday 22 March.
It is not usual practice for the Government to make a statement on a Private Member’s
Bill.</p><p>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, from April 2019, a new set of food security questions in the Family
Resources Survey. This means that, from Spring 2021, the Government will be able to
monitor the prevalence and severity of household food insecurity at a national level
and for specific groups, so that it can better understand household food needs. The
survey questionnaire is regularly updated so that it provides the best possible evidence
base to support policy-making and it isn’t normal practice to announce any survey
changes that are made as a result.</p>
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