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Processed Food: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with representatives of the food industry on the health impact of ultra-processed foods.

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 25 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jun 2025
Answer: 28 Jul 2025 · 33 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, whether he has had discussions with representatives of the food industry on the health impact of ultra-processed foods.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Department regularly engages a range of stakeholders including in the food industry. My rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has had no meetings with the food industry specifically on the health impact of ultra-processed...

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