Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 90445

Infant Foods

Tabled: 12 November 2025
Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

LabourHeywood and Middleton North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the appropriate amount of (a) iron and (b) vitamins is in food marketed for children under 36 months.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
Children’s early years provide an important foundation for their future health and strongly influence many aspects of wellbeing in later life.The Department has regulations in place that set nutritional, compositional, and labelling standards for commerci...

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