How many food banks are operating in the UK?
The use of emergency food aid in the UK has dramatically increased over the last decade.
Here is a fact file about the use of food banks:
More than 400 food banks are now in operation with around two opening every week
913,138 people, a third of them children, were given three days of emergency food between 2013-2014, according to the Trussell Trust which supports food banks in the UK.
It compared to 346,992 people in 2012-2013
In 2011-2012, 128,697 people used food banks - the same number as the previous three years put together
In 2013-2014, 30% of visitors - the highest proportion - said they visited a food bank because of delays in receiving their benefits
The second most common reason was because of low income followed by benefit changes. Homelessness, debt and domestic violence were among the other reasons that people visited