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Sugar: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will commission technical guidance for industry on consistent measurement of free sugars to ensure compliance and enforcement can be undertaken fairly.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 11 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 16 Mar 2026
Answer: 7 Apr 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will commission technical guidance for industry on consistent measurement of free sugars to ensure compliance and enforcement can be undertaken fairly.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2026
Answer published
On 27 January, the Government published the new nutrient profiling model (NPM). This included associated NPM technical guidance to support businesses to understand the new NPM and apply it to their products and worked examples on how to calculate free sug...

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