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Processed Food: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to issue guidance on ultra-processed food consumption as part of a public health strategy.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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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  1. 19 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to issue guidance on ultra-processed food consumption as part of a public health strategy.

  2. 21 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 28 May 2025

    Answer published

    We face an obesity crisis, and the Government will take action to tackle the root causes of obesity head on, easing the strain on our National Health Service and creating the healthiest generation of children ever.We have already laid secondary legislatio...

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