HC Deb 10 December 1984 vol 69 c380W
Mr. Fatchett

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what his Department estimates as the average cost of a diet for a pregnant woman.

Mr. John Patten

The advice given to healthy pregnant women is to eat a normal balanced diet. No estimates of the cost of such a diet are made by the Department because that cost must depend upon a personal choice of items.