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765271

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date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2017 to Question 6313, on sugar, whether the 5 per cent reduction target has been met.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	105623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>The assessment of achievement of the 5% reduction in the nine food categories contributing most to children’s sugar intake will be published by Public Health England (PHE) in March 2018. In this report, PHE will provide a detailed assessment of progress across the product categories included in the programme as well as by individual businesses and in high selling products. This commitment was set out in Childhood obesity: A plan for action, available to view here:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/10/2017 13:06:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

754008

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2017 to Question 2048, what steps Public Health England has taken to encourage (a) all businesses and (b) businesses in the Food and Drink Federation to achieve the reductions in sugar set out in Childhood obesity: a plan for action.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan published in August 2016 challenged industry to reduce overall sugar across the products contributing most to children’s sugar intakes by at least 20% by 2020, with a 5% reduction to be achieved in the first year by August 2017. Public Health England (PHE) published our first technical report ‘Sugar reduction: Achieving the 20%’ on 30 March 2017. The report set out guidelines for industry to deliver the 20% sugar reduction in nine categories of food by 2020. The report is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/604336/Sugar_reduction_achieving_the_20_.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/604336/Sugar_reduction_achieving_the_20_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>PHE is continuing its programme of engagement with businesses across all sectors of industry to achieve these guidelines, including members of the Food and Drink Federation and retailers with a significant focus on restaurants, takeaways and cafés. The first detailed progress report will be published in March 2018. PHE is now developing the metrics that will be used to monitor progress towards the 5% reduction that is to be achieved by August 2017.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/09/2017 14:13:29 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

746704

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral contribution by the former Under-Secretary of State for Health on 21 March 2017, Official Report, Column 775, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Food and Drink Federation's decision not to introduce the Government's 20 per cent optional reduction in sugar content in its members' products by 2020 on his Department's policies to tackle (a) childhood obesity and (b) childhood tooth decay.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	2048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>There has been no assessment made of the effect of Food and Drink Federation members’ compliance or non-compliance in achieving the 20% reduction in sugar content of key products contributing to children’s intakes by 2020 on childhood obesity or childhood tooth decay.</p><p> </p><p>In ‘Sugar reduction: The evidence for action’, published in October 2015, Public Health England (PHE) undertook modelling work to estimate the potential health impact and wider economic benefits of achieving the average population intake recommendation for sugar. This modelling found that achieving this over a 10-year period would result in 4,100 premature deaths and 204,000 cases of dental caries being averted, resulting in a total cost saving to the National Health Service of £484 million.</p><p> </p><p>PHE encourages all businesses to achieve the reductions in sugar as set out in ‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action’. A detailed assessment of industry’s progress will be published in March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/07/2017 11:13:15 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe