PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Breastfeeding (21 February 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to tackle (a) regional and (b) national differences in breastfeeding rates; and what discussions he has had with representatives from the devolved Administrations on a strategy to improve preterm nutrition.

Asked by:
Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Washington and Sunderland West (Sharon Hodgson MP) on 10 February 2020 to Question 10737.

My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has not had any recent discussions with representatives from the devolved administrations on a strategy to improve preterm nutrition.

A human milk-based diet is important to a baby at any age and provides the best start in life.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
2 March 2020