MORE than half of people living in England’s most deprived areas are spending less on food and essentials amid the cost-of-living crisis, official figures suggest.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have exposed divisions across the country in how people are being affected by soaring prices.
People living in England’s most deprived districts were almost twice as likely to report cutting down on food bills and other essentials.
One in 10 people living in the poorest areas said they had also fallen behind on their electricity or gas bills and more than three-fifths said they had struggled to meet the payments in the latest period in November.
Foodbank charity the Trussell Trust said more support was needed from the government to help the poorest get by in the months before benefits are increased in April.
“In the last six months, 320,000 people turned to Trussell Trust foodbanks for the first time and this number is likely to rise.”
As Dickens wrote in A Christmas Carol; “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.”
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