Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 110577

Vitamin D: Dietary Supplements

Tabled: 3 February 2026
Answered: 11 February 2026

Question

Clive Jones

Liberal DemocratWokingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend access to free and subsidized vitamin D supplements to at-risk groups identified in NICE PH56.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
In 2016, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) published a robust assessment of the evidence on vitamin D and a wide range of health outcomes resulting in the current advice for everyone to take a 10 microgram, or 400 international units, ...

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