Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 85130

Hospitals: Food

Tabled: 27 October 2025
Answered: 3 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

LabourWashington and Gateshead South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS trusts on providing meals for parents when their child is in hospital overnight.

Answer

Karin Smyth
NHS England is currently working with the National Health Service to pilot providing meals for parents when their child is in hospital overnight through work being implemented to recognise the wishes of Sophie Fairall and the charity established posthumou...

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