Question follow-through · 26204
Food: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has plans to take steps to help lower the price of healthy food.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 31 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has plans to take steps to help lower the price of healthy food.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jan 2025
Answer published
Steps to improve the affordability, availability, and accessibility of healthy foods are being considered as part of both the Child Poverty Strategy, due to be published in spring, as well as the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs-led Food ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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