HC Deb 08 January 2002 vol 377 c643W
Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if his Department was informed(a) that the Food Standards Agency planned to make its statement regarding sodium in bread on 29 November and (b) of the contents of the statement ahead of its release. [23881]

Yvette Cooper

The Department was aware that the Food Standards Agency had commissioned the survey on sodium in bread, and received prior notice of the FSA's intention to make a statement and its contents.