Question follow-through · 39222
Infant Foods: Sugar
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of improving product labelling on sugar content in food for children under the age of two.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of improving product labelling on sugar content in food for children under the age of two.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
Children’s early years provide an important foundation for their future health and strongly influences many aspects of well-being in later life. Data shows that babies and young children are eating too much sugar, and that some commercial baby foods, part...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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