Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 39222

Infant Foods: Sugar

Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025

Question

Mr Luke Charters

LabourYork Outer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of improving product labelling on sugar content in food for children under the age of two.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
Children’s early years provide an important foundation for their future health and strongly influences many aspects of well-being in later life. Data shows that babies and young children are eating too much sugar, and that some commercial baby foods, part...

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