PUBLICATION OF DEFRA REVIEW ON FOOD AID PROVISION IN THE UK

Early day motion 928, tabled 9 January 2014 by Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour). Signed by 72 members.

That this House acknowledges that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs commissioned an evidence review entitled, Household food security - a literature review of Food Aid, in March 2013 to assess and summarise evidence about food aid provision in the UK; notes the Government's commitment to this House to publish the findings of the review by the summer of 2013; further notes the Government's failure to publish the findings of the review despite a formal request from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger and Food Poverty in December 2013; and urges the Government to provide a clear deadline as a matter of urgency for the publication of the review to inform a public debate on the reasons for growing demand for food aid provision in this country.

Signatures by party: Labour 48, Liberal Democrat 8, DUP 4, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Independent 2, Plaid Cymru 2, Alliance 1, Conservative 1, Green 1, Respect 1, Scottish National Party 1.