PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hospitals: Food (4 October 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for hospital food in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)
Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)
Answer
The following table shows the cost of inpatient food services, as well as other patient food services, in England over the last five years:
Year | Inpatient food service costs | Other patient food service costs |
2022/23 | £750,600,000 | £126,000,000 |
2021/22 | £660,200,000 | £89,700,000 |
2020/21 | £617,800,000 | £35,300,000 |
2019/20 | £630,500,000 | N/A |
2018/19 | £633,800,000 | N/A |
Source: the NHS Digital Estates Return Information Collection, published December 2023, available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection/england-2022-23
Answered by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
14 October 2024
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