Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 120153

Sugar: Labelling

Tabled: 11 March 2026
Answered: 7 April 2026

Question

Adam Jogee

LabourNewcastle-under-Lyme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will commission technical guidance for industry on consistent measurement of free sugars to ensure compliance and enforcement can be undertaken fairly.

Answer

Mrs Sharon Hodgson
On 27 January, the Government published the new nutrient profiling model (NPM). This included associated NPM technical guidance to support businesses to understand the new NPM and apply it to their products and worked examples on how to calculate free sug...

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