DWP minister denies that stopping someone’s benefits could force them to use food banks

‘There is no evidence linking soaring food bank use to the DWP’s strict regime of benefit sanctions, a Government minister has claimed.

Priti Patel, an employment minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, told MPs that she did not accept claims by researchers that abruptly stopping someone’s income could cause them to seek emergency food aid.

“We have looked at this issue extensively and we agree with this conclusion reached by the All-party Parliamentary Group into hunger that the reasons for food bank use are complex and overlapping,” she said.’

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