Growing problems of poverty in the UK has led to a steep rise in the number of food banks over the last few years. The Trussell Trust’s latest annual figures, released earlier this year, showed that it gave out a record 1.3m food parcels to an estimated 666,000 people in 2017-18, up 13% on the previous year. The UK’s largest food bank network’s own analysis revealed that food banks in areas where full universal credit had been in place for at least 12 months were four times as busy.
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