Question reference: S6W-18889
- Asked by: Collette Stevenson, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 2 June 2023
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Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its draft plan on ending the need for food banks.
Answer
The Scottish Government has today published Cash-First: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland. This sets out our human rights approach to tackling food insecurity and details nine actions that we will take in collaboration with partners over the next three years to improve the response to financial hardship and reduce the need for emergency food parcels.
Scotland is the first nation in the UK to have such a plan and the actions will help to identify measures that move us closer towards our longer term ambition of a Scotland without the need for food banks.