Question follow-through · 907235
Food: Advertising
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the junk food advertising ban on trends in the level of obesity.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the junk food advertising ban on trends in the level of obesity.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
Our manifesto commitment to restrict junk food TV advertising before 9pm, and online at all times, was a moral imperative. This measure is expected to remove around 7.2 billion calories from children’s diets each year and prevent 20,000 cases of childhood...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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