| Heading: |
Processed Food: Children |
| Question ID: |
1809307 |
| UIN: |
57209 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
415 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Fabian Hamilton
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Fabian Hamilton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce consumption of ultra-processed food among children. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-23 |
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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: |
United Kingdom dietary recommendations are based on robust independent risk assessments by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN). In its 2023 and 2025 position statements on processed foods and health, the SACN concluded that while there a... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |