Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have fallen ill due to food in hospitals in each region and in each year since 2010.
The information requested is not collected centrally.
National Health Service trusts are locally responsible for compiling their own menus and making decisions about the food served. All patients deserve basic standards of care when they are in hospital and good food is one of them.