Question follow-through · 62887
Processed Food: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support access to affordable, minimally processed food.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support access to affordable, minimally processed food.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government’s Eatwell Guide already advises that people should eat more fruit, vegetables, and wholegrain or higher-fibre foods, as well as less processed meat, and less food and drink that is high in sugar, calories, saturated fat, and salt.The Eatwel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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