Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October to Question 60971 on malnutrition, for what reasons her Department have not made an assessment of trends in the levels of malnutrition in the UK; and if her Department will make an assessment of those trends.

There are no current plans to make an assessment of trends in malnutrition in the United Kingdom, as it is a devolved matter.

NHS Digital publishes data on hospital admissions in England for scurvy, rickets and malnutrition between 2007/08 and 2021/22, which is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/supplementary-information/2022/scurvy-rickets-and-malnutrition-hospital-admissions-by-age-2007-08-to-2021-22-provisional