Barry questioned Professor Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, about the evidence of ‘price gouging’ by the big name supermarkets – the three largest have together made a 97 per cent increase in profit over their pre-Covid levels – and how governments should intervene.
He also quizzed Lindsay Boswell, Chief Executive Officer, FareShare; Maria Marshall, Project Manager, Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN); Anna Taylor, Executive Director, The Food Foundation about the government’s food strategy and whether it had adequately addressed the reasons that increasing numbers of people are being driven to use food banks.