Claim: A million families are dependent on food banks.
Fact-check: Food banks, zero hours contracts and falling wages: are we worse off? - Full Fact
Verdict: the most commonly used figures for food bank use come from the trussell trust. they show a million uses  of food banks in 2013/14. the trust isn't the only organisation running food banks, so we don't have a figure for the total number of people using food banks.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt;Sam Ashworth-Hayes
Date published: 2015-09-18T00:00:00