Food banks demand

SOME 700,000 UK households used a food bank in the year prior to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a study on food poverty.

This represents 2.5% of all UK households between 2019-20, the Trussell Trust said, with food bank users at the start of last year living on just £248 a month on average after paying for their housing. The charity said hunger in the UK is not about food, but about people not having enough money for the basics.