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Food: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) new product labelling standards, including the proportion by weight of dominant food compounds such as salt and sugar and (b) developing n

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 May 2026
Target answer date
18 May 2026
Answer
26 May 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 13 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) new product labelling standards, including the proportion by weight of dominant food compounds such as salt and sugar and (b) developing n

  2. 18 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 May 2026

    Answer published

    Food labelling legislation requires that pre-packaged food and drinks include a nutrition declaration, which provides information on key nutrients, including salt and sugar. In addition, voluntary front-of-pack nutrition labelling, most commonly the multi...

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