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Fast Food: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ban fast food outlets near schools.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
12 Mar 2025
Answer
17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ban fast food outlets near schools.

  2. 12 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    On 12 December 2024, the Government published the revised National Planning Policy Framework for local government. As part of this, local authorities were given the stronger, clearer powers they have told us they need to block new fast-food outlets near s...

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