Question follow-through · 53029
Processed Food: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned on the health impacts of ultra-processed food; and when he expects findings to be published.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned on the health impacts of ultra-processed food; and when he expects findings to be published.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR launched a research call in July 2024 on the health and health inequality impacts of interventions that effect consumption...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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