Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 28364

Malnutrition: Older People

Tabled: 3 February 2025

Answered: 18 February 2025

Question

Chris Ward

Labour — Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of food poverty on trends in the level of malnutrition in over 65-year-olds in Sussex in the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

In the United Kingdom, the primary causes of malnutrition are clinical, rather than it solely being caused by poor or inadequate dietary intake. Most cases of clinical malnutrition will be secondary to another health condition which may impact on nutritio...

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