Britain’s hunger crisis laid bare as 14 million going without food because they can’t afford it
Britain is faced with a deepening hunger crisis that more than 14 million people go without food because shocking new analyzes emerged.
According to a report of the food bank network Trussell, a total of 3.8 million children (27 percent) are estimated to have lived in homes where people are forced to skip or cut and cut food due to financial concerns.
The figures have increased sharply from the report, which he faced with 11.6 million hunger in 2022, and leaves the increasing cost of life that dragged England naked.
The experts behind the study accused the crisis on low income, inadequate benefit rates, increasing rents and rising energy bills, because the situation was only worse and called for the Labor Party to take quick action, including two children’s benefit cover.
Politicians and campaignists hit the findings, described hunger as “scandal political failure ve and said that the research should be ashamed to the government’s essence ..
Trussell Policy, Research and Impact Director Helen Barnard said: “Hunger and difficulties are increasingly seen as a normal part of daily life in the UK. This is not an inevitable tendency, but the result of systems that need to be updated urgently.”
The report also found the following:
- Approximately three out of 10 children aged five and under 10 (31 percent) live in hunger households
- Approximately three of the 10 households using food banks (30 percent) show that “paid employment is no longer protecting people from difficulties”
- More than a quarter of the private tenants (28 percent) were subjected to food insecurity in 2024 and rose to 44 percent of people living in social rented houses. The ratio for landlords decreases to 8 percent
Trussell Analysis – Based on the IPSOS survey of approximately 4,000 adults referring to the UK Food Banks, the Labor Party was carried out in the middle of 2024 when it came to power. However, the researchers say that the issue has worsened since then since the government could not cope with the rising hunger crisis.
In the election manifesto, the worker promised to end the “moral scar” of mass reliance on the food parcels and promised to start a “ambitious strategy için to cope with poverty. However, the publication of this long -awaited plan was delayed from autumn this year from spring.
The government is under pressure to scrape the benefits limit for parents from demanding universal credit or tax loans for a third or next child. Experts, the termination of the conservative period policy, including 470,000 children, including 670,000 people will remove from violent difficulties, he says.
One of many wars Sir Keir Starmer has met since he came to power after a dramatic climb on the welfare bill to prevent a great labor rebellion.
Alison Garnham, the General Manager of the Child Poverty Action Group, said: “Two children’s limits draw more than 100 children every day to poverty and produce hunger and difficulties throughout the country.
“Unless the policy is scrapped, at the end of this parliament, there will be more children than a worker in poverty – and the government will open up to millions of families, promising to deliver it.”
Annie, a mother from the southwest of England, said: “As a single mother with a retail job, I work at all hours that I can provide for my daughter. But my income needs to be overcome with universal credit – and even then, it is still not enough to meet the rising cost of life.
“At the end of the month, all the money is over and I often jump to make sure that my daughter can eat. There are no choice but to go to the food bank.
Kim Johnson, the left -wing craftsmanship, described the hunger in the UK as “not inevitable, but a scandal political failure ,, and he added:“ Years of arrest, insecure work, stagnant wages and a broken welfare system pushed millions of difficulties while continuing to develop.
Debbie Abrahams, the chairman of the Chairman of the Labor and Pension Committee, said that the findings are “unfortunately not surprising, but not surprising”.
“Today’s figures show that 2.5 million people who have faced hunger due to financial difficulties in England since 2022. This reflects what I see in my own election area,” he said. “I am determined to work with the government to address poverty and inequality.
Rachael Maskell, who was dismissed from labor after rebellion against Sir Keir’s welfare reforms, said that ığı The increase in food insecurity is disturbing, ”he said.
“While the government invests in child care, expanding the scope of free school meals and breakfast clubs, [and] Increasing the minimum wage shows that only the increase in housing costs and the cost of living depends on households. ”
“The fact that the government is ambitious in the plans to end child poverty in this autumn can ensure that we do not see any more deduction in Social Security. Ultimately we need a progressive taxation system, so abundant ones can support them. [who have] Very little and on the edge of hunger as the report said. “
As part of the advice, the charity suggested that ministers terminate the ice cream for the local housing allowance (LHA) re -introduced in April and terminate the amounts that households can take the advantage of housing to cover rent.
Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation last year showed that the ice cream in LHA would make special tenants £ 243 worse in 2025-26 and would rise to £ 2029-30 if it remained in place.
Responding to the report of the Chief Analyst of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Trussell, Peter Matejic said, “In 2025, it is not completely unacceptable for low -income households to face hunger and difficulties in England.
“This government is determined to cope with an unacceptable increase in food bank addiction.
“In addition to expanding free school meals and making the most poorer children hungry on holidays with a new crisis support package, our child poverty will publish an ambitious strategy later this year.
“Also, while protecting the most needy, we overhaul the business centers to support people to good, safe jobs and reform the broken welfare system.”
