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Motion · S5M-20353 · 8 Jan 2020

Emergency Food Parcel Provision in Scotland

Lodged by Mark McDonald Standard Motion 20 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament recognises the work carried out by A Menu for Change, in partnership with the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN), to measure the scale of emergency food parcel provision in Scotland; understands that, until recently, the only national data available had come from the Trussell Trust, the UK’s largest network of food banks; notes that in March 2019 A Menu for Change and IFAN published statistics that the number of emergency parcels distributed by the country's independent food banks was nearly double the previous figure recorded by the Trussell Trust; understands that further research published on 9 January 2020 records 596,472 emergency parcels were handed out between April 2018 and September 2019, an increase of 22%; believes with sadness that these statistics represent only the tip of the food insecurity iceberg, as they do not reflect the other types of emergency food aid provision or the number of people going hungry without accessing help at all, and calls for renewed efforts to tackle food poverty and its damaging effects on families and communities across Scotland.

Supporters (20)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.