Claim: A million people accessed a food bank last year and only 40,000 did so in 2010.
Fact-check: Food banks: hard to say whether rising use reflects rising demand - Full Fact
Verdict: a million food packs were given out by the trussell trust last year, and 40,000 in 2010. one million people using all food banks in the country is plausible, but we don't have complete figures.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sinéad Boultwood
Date published: 2016-11-02T00:00:00