PEOPLE on welfare benefits can afford to eat and rely on food banks for "short-term shortages", a UK Government source said as David Cameron revealed he would soon visit one.
After weeks of Labour MPs calling on the Prime Minister to visit a food bank, he told the Commons he planned to visit one in his own Oxfordshire constituency "very shortly".
It came as a Downing Street aide made clear that food banks existed as a stop-gap for people and were, in fact, an example of Mr Cameron's Big Society. The aide said: "Benefit levels are set at a level where people can afford to eat."
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