Question follow-through · 27401
Food: Packaging
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to ensure that written text on all food packaging can be read by people with visual impairments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to ensure that written text on all food packaging can be read by people with visual impairments.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2025
Answer published
The UK maintains high standards on the information that is provided on food labels, so that consumers can have confidence in the food that they buy. The availability and accessibility of essential food information to all consumers is vitally important. It...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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