Question follow-through · 6192
Hospitals: Food
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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
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.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The following table shows the cost of inpatient food services, as well as other patient food services, in England over the last five years:YearInpatient food service costsOther patient food service costs2022/23£750,600,000£126,000,0002021/22£660,200,000£8...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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