In a paper published in Maternal and Child Nutrition by NPEU researchers Laura Oakley, Maria Quigley and others shows that breastfeeding rates in England increased from 65.5% in 2008-9 to 72.4% in 2012-13. There was a larger increase in more deprived areas suggesting a narrowing of inequalities in breastfeeding.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mcn.12159/abstract