| Heading: |
Infant Foods: Sugar |
| Question ID: |
1785829 |
| UIN: |
39222 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5199 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Luke Charters
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| Asking Member handle: |
lukejcr
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@lukejcr
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of improving product labelling on sugar content in food for children under the age of two. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
Children’s early years provide an important foundation for their future health and strongly influences many aspects of well-being in later life. Data shows that babies and young children are eating too much sugar, and that some commercial baby foods, part... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |