Claim: The number of people using food banks since 2010 has gone from the tens of thousands to the millions.
Fact-check: How many people use food banks? - Full Fact
Verdict: the number of uses of trussell trust food banks has increased over this period from 41,000 to 1.2 million, but we don't know how many individual people use food banks in total. the trust estimates it had 560,000 users in 2016/17, but this won't reflect the total number of people using food banks in the uk.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2017-04-28T00:00:00