Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 3616

Processed Food

Tabled: 30 August 2024
Answered: 5 September 2024

Question

Dr Beccy Cooper

LabourWorthing West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce consumption of ultra-processed foods.

Answer

As set out in the King's Speech, the Government will bring forward the necessary secondary legislation to ban junk food advertising to children and to stop the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under 16-year-olds. We face an obesity crisis, and we wi...

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