Question follow-through · 28852

Fast Food: Advertising

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of out-of-home advertising of fast food on children and young people.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 6 Feb 2025
Answer: 14 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of out-of-home advertising of fast food on children and young people.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
No assessment has been made of the potential impact of out-of-home advertising of fast food on children and young people. We are however taking proportionate action, including restricting junk food advertising on TV and online, limiting the access of sch...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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