1. For the two past financial years (2015/16 and 2016/17 to date), please provide the following data, breaking it down month by month:
a. The number of inpatient main meals requested in the Trust
b. The number of inpatient main meals left untouched
c. The total cost of providing inpatient main meals
d. The cost of feeding one inpatient per day
2. Please name the catering companies and food suppliers used by the Trust in 2015/16 and 2016/17 to date
3. Please provide details of what changes, if any, the Trust has made or plans to make to inpatient catering and food procurement contracts with suppliers and/or catering companies in response to rising food commodity costs.
4. Please state:
a. Whether the Trust currently meets the following Government Buying Standards for food and catering services: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/418072/gbs-food-catering-march2015.pdf
b. Whether the Trust currently uses or has made plans to use the provisions in the Government Buying Standards that allow an authority to depart from mandated production and/or animal welfare standards to avoid a “significant increase in costs”. If so, please set out the date this decision what taken and the details of what was decided.