Submitted on Thursday 15th March 2018
Rejected on Thursday 22nd March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
To stop MPs taking away free school meals
"People at the upper end of the income scale have no idea of what's going on down at the bottom of the scale. They don't realize how much people are really hurting."
Sir Michael Marmot, health inequality expert and author of Fair Society, Healthy Lives
Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, many people struggle to afford food.
•In 2012-13, the Trussell Trust foodbank network, an Oxfam partner, provided over 350,000 people in the UK with food parcels - more than double the year before.
•Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty estimate that over 500,000 people in the UK are now reliant on food parcels.
•Over 2 million people in the UK are estimated to be malnourished, and 3 million are at risk of becoming so.
•36% of the UK population are just one heating bill or a broken washing machine away from hardship.
•1 in 6 parents have gone without food themselves to afford to feed their families
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