Infant Foods: Coronavirus
(asked on 19th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the retail cost of (a) baby food, (b) infant formula and (c) infant medication does not rise disproportionately as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
This question was answered on 27th April 2020
The Department does not set the retail prices for baby food and infant formula.
The costs of branded medicines are controlled by the statutory and voluntary schemes for branded medicines. Under those schemes, any price increase needs to be agreed by the Department.