Question follow-through · 117943
Drinks: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making to align the UK’s descriptor guidance for low and no alcohol products with that employed by the EU and other international trade partners.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making to align the UK’s descriptor guidance for low and no alcohol products with that employed by the EU and other international trade partners.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
In the 10-Year Health Plan, the Government has committed to consult on raising the upper alcohol limit for drinks labelled as alcohol-free to 0.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) from 0.05% ABV, which would bring the labelling guidance for no and low alcohol drin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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