Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on peer support for breastfeeding in each year since 2010.

Currently, support and information is available to health professionals and parents through the NHS Choices website under the Start4Life banner, the National Breastfeeding Helpline, UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative and local peer support programmes.

In 2014 the Department provided £30,000 to UNICEF UK, to support the establishment of the National Infant Feeding Network. The network shares and promotes evidence-based practice around infant feeding and very early childhood development to deliver optimum health and wellbeing outcomes for mothers and babies.