«We know that 1.1 million
food parcels are
given out in Trussell Trust
food banks alone but these figures are clearly the tip of the iceberg - the United Nations has estimated over eight million people in the UK are
food insecure, approximately 2,000
food banks and
food bank centres are in operation, rising levels of hospital admissions due to malnutrition cost the NHS # 12 billion per year and there are record levels of in - work poverty.»
The Trussell Trust revealed today that it
gave out over half a million three - day emergency
food parcels in the six months to the end of September.