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1716230

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 15 of the report by Bite Back entitled Fuel us don't fool us, published in 2024, what steps he is taking to prevent the food industry from targeting children; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring manufacturers to remove (a) child-appealing features and (b) misleading health claims from unhealthy products.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Jo Gideon
uin	25098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to working with businesses to ensure we create the conditions for a healthier nation, and we are considering the recommendations from Bite Back’s report, Fuel Us, Don’t Fool Us. We are committed to addressing childhood obesity by implementing an ambitious programme of measures. These include restricting the location of foods high in fat, salt, or sugar in shops and online, which came into force on 1 October 2022. These restrictions will have the single biggest impact on reducing children’s calorie consumption and are expected to accrue health benefits of over £57 billion, and provide the National Health Service savings of over £4 billion over the next 25 years.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 October 2025, the volume price promotion restrictions will come into force, restricting volume price promotions such as three for two offers on less healthy products. The Government will simultaneously introduce a United Kingdom wide 9:00pm television watershed for products high in fat, salt, or sugar, and a restriction of paid-for advertising of these products online. We continue to work with industry on the Food Data Transparency Partnership in co-developing voluntary reporting requirements for food businesses to demonstrate the healthiness of their sales.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/05/2024 13:23:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4817 label Biography information for Jo Gideon

1697032

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure retail food businesses comply with measures in the Food Information Regulations 2014 on providing written allergen information for labels.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	19237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for food safety related labelling, including allergens. Local authorities are responsible for enforcing food law in the vast majority of food businesses, including those in the retail and catering sector. As central competent authority, the FSA monitors the delivery of official controls by local authorities.</p><p>The FSA produces the statutory Food Law Code of Practice and associated Practice Guidance establishing a set of expectations for the activities local authorities are responsible for under food law, and how these are to be delivered. This is supported by a range of training, advice, and guidance to help food officers discharge their functions. Recent changes to the Food Law Code of Practice will enable a more risk-based and intelligence-driven approach to targeting premises for food standards inspections and carrying out interventions, and includes specific consideration of the risk factor for compliance with providing allergen information.</p><p>The FSA also provides support for food businesses, for example through guidance and training, on providing allergen information in line with the requirements of the 2014 Food Information to Consumer Regulations to help drive up compliance and make it easier for people with a food allergy, intolerance, and coeliac disease to make safe choices when eating out.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/03/2024 11:12:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1692380

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of calorie labelling on menus on (a) obesity levels, (b) people with eating disorders and (c) young people.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	16196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has commissioned independent research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the regulations, and these findings are expected in mid-2024. The NIHR is also funding research to explore the impact of the regulations on people with lived experience of eating disorders, with findings due in October 2025.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 16197 question first answered 08/03/2024 11:41:03 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1692382

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will commission a review into the effectiveness of the requirement under the Calorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021 to display calorie information on menus.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	16197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has commissioned independent research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the regulations, and these findings are expected in mid-2024. The NIHR is also funding research to explore the impact of the regulations on people with lived experience of eating disorders, with findings due in October 2025.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 16196 question first answered 08/03/2024 11:41:03 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1687451

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to help improve the (a) clarity and (b) accuracy of allergen information on food labelling.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	13073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The fundamental principle of food labelling rules is that information provided to the consumer must not mislead and must enable the safe use of food.  The United Kingdom maintains high standards on the information that is provided on food labels, so that consumers can have confidence in the food they buy. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including food allergen labelling.</p><p>All food businesses are under a legal obligation to provide information on the presence of the 14 major allergens in food, so that people who have allergies and intolerances are able to make safe food choices. The FSA carries out a range of research to ensure that this information is clear and accurate. It has recently carried out an evaluation of the prepacked for direct sale food labelling requirements introduced in 2021, and updated food labelling technical guidance for businesses following a consultation with consumers and food businesses on the application and understanding of allergen labelling.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 13074 question first answered 12/02/2024 13:14:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1687452

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she will make an assessment of the adequacy of food labelling for people with allergies.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	13074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The fundamental principle of food labelling rules is that information provided to the consumer must not mislead and must enable the safe use of food.  The United Kingdom maintains high standards on the information that is provided on food labels, so that consumers can have confidence in the food they buy. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including food allergen labelling.</p><p>All food businesses are under a legal obligation to provide information on the presence of the 14 major allergens in food, so that people who have allergies and intolerances are able to make safe food choices. The FSA carries out a range of research to ensure that this information is clear and accurate. It has recently carried out an evaluation of the prepacked for direct sale food labelling requirements introduced in 2021, and updated food labelling technical guidance for businesses following a consultation with consumers and food businesses on the application and understanding of allergen labelling.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 13073 question first answered 12/02/2024 13:14:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1686748

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it his policy to implement Owen's Law in line with the recommendations of the Food Standards Agency.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	12663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The fundamental principle of food labelling rules is that information provided to the consumer must not mislead and must enable the safe use of food. The United Kingdom maintains high standards on the information that is provided on food labels so that consumers can have confidence in the food that they buy.</p><p>At the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) December 2023 board meeting, the board agreed a revised policy for provision of allergen information for food businesses selling non-prepacked food, such as coffee shops and restaurants. The new policy sets an expectation for these businesses to provide allergen information in writing as well as having a conversation. The board also agreed their preference would be for written information to be mandatory.</p><p>As a non-ministerial department, the FSA cannot make legislation and has written to Ministers in England and Wales, the Executive in Northern Ireland, and Food Standards Scotland for views on these matters.</p><p>In the meantime, the FSA will develop guidance to implement this policy and provide support for food businesses on how to provide written allergen information to help drive up compliance and make it easier for people with a food allergy, intolerance or coeliac disease to make safe choices when eating out.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/02/2024 10:58:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1643681

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government response to the petition entitled Owen's Law - Change the law around allergy labelling in UK restaurants, published on 14 July 2021, what recent progress the Food Standards Agency has made on assessing the proposal to introduce mandatory allergen labelling on restaurant menus.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	188997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2023 answer text <p>All food businesses are under a legal obligation to provide information on the presence of the 14 major allergens in food, including in the non-prepacked sector, such as in restaurants and cafes, so that people who have allergies and intolerances are able to make safe food choices. Current requirements state that for food items provided in restaurants, allergen information must be clearly signposted and can be provided in writing or verbally.</p><p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA), who has policy responsibility for food safety, is currently considering how to improve the provision of information for people with allergies and researching different approaches for the provision of written and verbal information to improve the accuracy and communications of allergen information. The FSA has recently commissioned several pieces of research in this area. These will provide new evidence on the nature and extent of food hypersensitivity reactions, different international approaches to written information, and the business operating models of small and micro businesses in the non-prepacked sector. These reports will be published in due course and will be presented to the FSA Board to consider next steps.</p><p>Additionally, the FSA has conducted a study visit to the Republic of Ireland to understand the practical implementation of their legislation mandating written allergen information and a workshop with key stakeholders. This evidence will be used to support careful consideration of any potential changes and to assess the impacts for both consumer safety and food businesses.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 21/06/2023 14:24:12 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1642515

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Natasha's Law costs of enforcement grant.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	188306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2023 answer text <p>The New Burdens grant for the enforcement of Natasha’s Law is a non-ring-fenced revenue grant which has been provided to local authorities in England since the implementation of the legislation on 1 October 2021. The grant is jointly funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and was administered in 2021/22 and 2022/23 through a Section 31 grant. For 2023/24 onwards, funding has been rolled into the Local Government Finance Settlement.</p><p>The funding for each local authority was calculated to take into account the additional time required during, and the frequency of, routine inspection visits, based on the number of relevant officers and affected businesses within a local authority.</p><p>The FSA have recently undertaken an evaluation of the implementation of Natasha’s Law in the United Kingdom which included speaking to local authorities who are responsible for monitoring food business compliance with the new rules. The findings are being assessed and the report will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 13/06/2023 14:24:27 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1581216

registered interest
date	26/01/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to reduce the potential impact of publishing calorific content on menus on people with eating disorders.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	133789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Coventry South on 25 October 2022 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-10-17/64353" target="_blank">64353</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 02/02/2023 10:57:19 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater