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The FRS data is released annually, around February/March, at GOV.UK. The exact release date will be indicated at GOV.UK with four or more week's notice. The most recent results were published on March 21 2024, based on interviews between April 2022 and March 2023. [3]
Some 93% of all cereals consumed in the UK last year were produced in the country, compared with 53% of fresh vegetables. Key statistics in Government report on UK food security Skip to main content
Households below average income (HBAI) is an annual publication on poverty statistics in the United Kingdom. [1] The data is based on the Family Resources Survey . Poverty is defined as having an equivalised household income below the 60% median line.
Walking the breadline: the scandal of food poverty in 21st century Britain – May 2013 report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty (archived) UK portal for World hunger day, 28 May 2013, highlighting many UK based events and civil society work for hunger relief Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
Poverty within the UK is particularly concentrated in Wales. While the relative income-poverty rate for the UK stood at 16.8% in 2014, the same poverty rate for Wales stood at 23% in the same year. [95] [96] Poverty in Wales has remained in the 25% range, with only small dips throughout the last decade. [96]
Labour set a goal to eradicate child poverty by 2020, but missed two interim targets. Fact check: The last Labour government narrowly missed interim child poverty targets Skip to main content
A review into the scale and severity of child food poverty should be launched urgently, a charity has said, as it claimed measures aimed at tackling the cost-of-living crisis do not go far enough.
Food delivery drivers with companies including Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo stage a five-hour strike between 5pm and 10pm over pay and conditions. [180] 15 February The UK is confirmed to be in a recession, after the economy shrank by 0.3% between October and December, having already contracted between July and September 2023. [181]