Question follow-through · 45023
Fast Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Food Standards Agency on whether it has a working definition of a fast food outlet.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Food Standards Agency on whether it has a working definition of a fast food outlet.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
The Food Standards Agency and Defra Ministers meet regularly to discuss key issues.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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