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Ifan letters and statements

Letters, Statements
& Submissions

IFAN Submissions

IFAN's Submission to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA) on Food Security

September 2022

IFAN's submission to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

May 2020

IFAN's submission to the APPG on Ending the Need for Food Banks Inquiry: Cash or Food?

July 2022

IFAN's submission to the Labour Party's Policy Forum

June 2019

IFAN's response to the Scottish Government's draft plan to end the need for food banks

January 2022

IFAN's submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

September 2018

IFAN Letters & Statements

Joint letter to the First Minister of Scotland

May 2024

IFAN's letter to the Prime Minister on the £20 cut to Universal Credit

October 2021

IFAN's letter to the Prime Minister calling for legislative change to address poverty in the UK

July 2020

Civil society calls on UK Government to allow UN food poverty envoy to access to the UK

May 2024

IFAN's Letter to the Prime Minster on urgent need to reduce food aid

January 2021

Emergency independent food banks ask: "Can we stay open?" as UK goes into coronavirus lockdown

March 2020

IFAN's letter to the Prime Minister on rising levels of poverty, destitution and hunger

April 2022

COVID-19 learning and reflections: IFAN members reflect on doubling of need for food parcels in Scotland

October 2020

IFAN's statement on the ASDA, FareShare and Trussell Trust £20 million Partnership Announcement

February 2018

Joint Letters & Statements

Open letter on fair tax reforms

December 2023

JRF and over 100 organisations call on Rishi Sunak to honour his commitment to go ahead with the normal uprating of benefits in line with inflation | JRF

October 2022

End Child Poverty Letter

November 2021

Food Abundance and Equality Declaration

April 2021

An open letter on the food emergency to the Prime Minister and Government

January 2021

Letter to Gavin Williamson MP: fund benefits-related free school meals during October and Christmas holidays

October 2020

Open letter to all MPs, MSPs and a MSs: Please, act now to end poverty for Britain's carers

2020

Rt. Hon. Michael Gove MP, Cabinet member with responsibility for ‘no deal’ Brexit preparations

July 2019

Open letter to the Chancellor on the Household Support Fund | Barnardo's

October 2023

Letter to the next Prime Minister Regarding Rising Energy Prises | JRF

August 2022

Letter to UK Parliamentarians Regarding Impending Cut to Social Security Support - Human Rights Watch

September 2021

Scotland’s political leaders urged to commit to expansion of free bus travel | The Poverty Alliance to the Prime Minister | JRF

April 2021

Coalition warns it would be a terrible mistake to cut the £20 uplift to Universal Credit | JRF

November 2020

Open Letter to the Chancellor: Keep the Lifeline

September 2020

Joint statement on a No-Deal Brexit

March 2019

Open letter calling on the Scottish Government to incorporate the Right to Food

September 2020

Open letter: Urgent improvements are needed to the Healthy Start Scheme | Sustain

December 2022

Letter to Cabinet Secretary Shona Robinson from IFAN and the Trussell Trust

May 2020

Keep the lifeline - open letter to the Prime Minister | JRF

September 2021

Letter to the Chancellor Regarding Funding at Budget 2021 for local welfare provision

Feburary 2021

Letter to Gavin Williamson MP: fund free school meals over Christmas

November 2020

Open Letter in the Guardian - Universal credit's two child limit and the benefit cap must end now

April 2020

Open Letter in the Guardian: Food banks are no solution to poverty

March 2019

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