Infant Foods: Lincolnshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve infant feeding support in Lincolnshire.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The Government is committed to raising the healthiest generation of children ever and giving every child the best start in life. Infant feeding is critical to a baby’s healthy growth and development.
Through the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme, we are investing £18.5 million in 2025/26 to improve infant feeding support across 75 local authorities in England, including Lincolnshire. We have also extended and expanded the National Breastfeeding Helpline so that more families across the United Kingdom can access breastfeeding support 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
The child health workforce is central to how we provide infant feeding support. We have committed to strengthening health visiting services so that all families can access joined-up, high quality services. We have also committed to training thousands more midwives across the country to better support women throughout their pregnancy and beyond. By April 2025, the number of full-time equivalents had increased by 1,330 compared to April 2024.
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