The Prime Minister And Food Banks

EDM number 1108 in 2013-14, proposed by George Galloway on 25/02/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Food and Incomes and poverty.

That this House concurs with the conclusion of 27 Anglican bishops that the Prime Minister is responsible for a national crisis which has seen 500,000 people visit food banks since Easter 2013; notes with shame the bishops' concern that in the world's seventh richest country people are still going hungry; further notes with grave concern that in the last year 5,500 people have been admitted to hospital with malnutrition; and concludes that the welfare system is failing to provide a robust last line of defence against hunger and that the Government's cuts and policy has made hundreds of thousands of poor people more vulnerable and dependent on charity.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.