Chris Stephens called for a cross sector summit to help communities secure food and said retailers should be forced to report their food waste.
Chris Stephens told the House of Commons on Monday the Government must urgently introduce a food insecurity strategy to address rising levels of hunger across the UK.He also called on the UK government must end the cruel sanctions and deductions system, as well as abolishing the two child cap and associated rape clause.
Stephens said: "The first plank of a food poverty strategy must be to reform or get rid of those deductions and sanctions, which are applied so harshly as to leave people hungry. I would place the abolition of the two-child limit on social security payments in a similar category." "In addition to that, much of the food required to sustain such programmes could be made available if the Government introduced the mandatory reporting of food waste and surplus in retailers’ supply chains - a measure that would trigger much-needed action by those retailers to ensure that edible surplus arising in the farms and factories that supply them was recycled for human consumption rather than put to waste.
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