Question follow-through · 29380
Food: Advertising
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to introduce legislation on advertising restrictions for foods that are high in (a) fat, (b) sugar and (c) salt.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 17 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to introduce legislation on advertising restrictions for foods that are high in (a) fat, (b) sugar and (c) salt.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Feb 2025
Answer published
Implementing restrictions on the advertising of less healthy food and drink products on television and online is a commitment for the Government. This includes a 9:00pm watershed on television and a 24-hour restriction on paid-for advertising of these pro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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