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answer › date of answer	2017-12-18
answer › grouped question UIN	119088
min answer › question first answered	2017-12-18T12:20:06.8Z

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12/12/2017

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Food Banks

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25259

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons his Department has no plans to collect or publish statistics on food bank usage since the roll-out of universal credit.

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Barnsley Central

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Dan Jarvis

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119087

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is ministerial correction

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18/12/2017

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<p>The provision of food aid ranges from small local provision, through to regional and national schemes. This is mostly community-led provision responding to local needs and as such, we do not believe it is possible to keep a record of the number of food banks, nor the potential number of people using them, without placing unnecessary burdens on volunteers trying to help their communities.</p>

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East Hampshire

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Damian Hinds

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119088

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18/12/2017 17:34:05

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