Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 29335

Infant Foods

Tabled: 5 February 2025
Answered: 17 February 2025

Question

Anna Sabine

Liberal DemocratFrome and East Somerset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the proportion of mothers who (a) breastfeed, (b) use formula and (c) use both for infants in the first six weeks of life.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department collects, holds, and publishes numbers and rates of babies fully breastfed, partially breastfed, and not at all breastfed, at six to eight weeks of age. It can be assumed that babies partially breastfed and not at all breastfed are receivin...

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