Question follow-through · 27101
Nutrition: Trading Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of resources available to local authority Trading Standards services to enforce high fat, salt and sugar regulations.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of resources available to local authority Trading Standards services to enforce high fat, salt and sugar regulations.
7 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to the answers provided on 31 March in response to Question 120152, on 1 July in response to Question 8994, and on 7 September in response to Question 19910.I also refer him to the final impact assessment on the proposals to restri...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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