let's speak now to emma revie, chief executive of the trussell trust.your time. the figures are... the figures are quite grim. that has been a big spike andi quite grim. that has been a big spike and i don't mean this in a cruel way at all, i wonder whether you are surprised, given what is going on, that there has been this massive spike in demand?” going on, that there has been this massive spike in demand? i don't think we were surprised. just because we have been hearing from our food banks ever since the crisis has started that they have been overwhelmed by the number of people coming to them. i think it's good to understand exactly how much it has increased so we can understand the scale of intervention, we need from the government. and i think because of the volume of people finding themselves in crisis and not getting enough support, we have come together as a group of charities to ask the government for emergency income support scheme. one of the things that is striking about analysing these figures is the number of, huge number of children impa

the food bank charity, the trussell trust, had produced figures that suggested the five—week waiting resulted in a 50% increase in food bank use in some areas. the first thing for me that is really clear as we came into this crisis, the speed at which people fell so far into this crisis and it suggests that the strands that made up the net were already frayed and very quickly were able to be broken. we are aware that there are advance loans and that we can take them but we see a lower uptake of those advanced loans as we go into the coronavirus. and i think what we know from our previous research is the reason for that is that people are anxious about re payments and going into debt. and not to be sure what that would mean. the hard chat now and whether it will announce having any kind of income or hardship later where taking the advanced now but i know that is leading to have and sufficient money. people are having to access their clean cancer hubs that have been established in response to covid—19. similarly, because of their vulnerability they are not able to use public transport

the trussell trust, which supports most of the uk's food banks, says demand was up by more than 80% inriod last year. michael buchanan reports. well, it's very embarrassing, really. you know, that you're having to come to ask for food. because you've no cash in your bank account to buy it. i used to work at the airport, but obviously with all this coronavirus, i've been temporarily laid off. you never know what's happening behind closed doors. but food banks are getting a glimpse into people's lives. at st paul's church in leeds, they're feeding more people than ever. demand is up 80% on the same time last year. among the new clients is sharon wareham, who was a cleaner at leeds bradford airport until the pandemic put paid to herjob. she's collecting food for herself and her in—laws. if it wasn't for the food banks, then it would be quite hard. because when i've got all my household bills, rent, gas, electric, it leaves me with next to nothing. sharon's mother has been forced here, too. she is waiting on an operation and her husband was sent home from work to protect him from the virus

are already thought to rely on emergency food parcels but according to reports conducted by the trussell trust demand has risen by over 80 percent since march 29th teen over 120 percent more emergency food packages were given out to children during the same period and significantly more people have been using food banks since the corona virus outbreak a 60 percent increase between february and march of this year alone and all this means the amount of people were quarreling emergency food this year is 17 times higher than last year and the findings concur with the stark results of a survey by the food foundation this highlighted that $3000000.00 britons or 6 percent of the entire population said they or someone in their household is going hungry during the lockdown or concerns the virus is pushing millions more britons into poverty a growing us chance very soon now prevailed over one of the half 1000000 new benefit claims have been made since the pandemic began it echoes similar warnings by the charity oxfam that half a 1000000000 more people could fall into poverty globally as a result of the