ALL of Dorset’s MPs voted against a Commons motion to publish the results of research into the use of food banks in the UK.

Labour MP Maria Eagle put a motion before the House last Wednesday calling for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs-commissioned report to be published.

She also called for the Government to bring forward measures to reduce dependency on food banks, including a freeze on energy prices, a water affordability scheme, measures to end abuses of zero hours contracts, incentives to companies to pay a living wage and the abolition of the under-occupancy penalty.

Among the 296 MPs who voted against were Annette Brooke, Robert Syms, Conor Burns, Christopher Chope, Richard Drax, Tobias Ellwood, Oliver Letwin and Bob Walter.

The debate raged between Conservative MPs, who blamed economic policies of the previous government, and Labour MPs who blamed coalition policies.