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Nutrition: Obesity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps with the food and drink industry to help tackle (a) poor diets and (b) obesity.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 6 Nov 2024
Answer: 11 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps with the food and drink industry to help tackle (a) poor diets and (b) obesity.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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11 Nov 2024
Answer published
From data collected through the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, the Government knows that, compared to dietary recommendations, people are generally consuming too much sugar, saturated fat, salt, too many calories, and not enough fruit, vegetables, or...

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