Tackling Holiday Hunger

EDM number 560 in 2015-16, proposed by Ruth Smeeth on 21/10/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Food and Incomes and poverty.

That this House notes that thousands of children in the UK are suffering from hunger and malnutrition during school holidays; further notes the impact that this has on children's wellbeing and educational attainment; recognises the need to provide greater support for projects which are working to ensure children are fed during school holidays; urges further action to tackle holiday hunger in the UK; and calls on the Government to meet the Holiday Hunger Task Force as a matter of urgency, to commission further research into the impact of holiday learning loss, and to provide financial support to pilot community projects in the worst affected constituencies to develop a solution for holiday hunger.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.