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1714624

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
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	Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the work of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition; how many of their recommendations in relation to nutrition have been implemented; and how many have not been implemented, and why.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL4174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) is a committee of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), and provides independent scientific advice to ministers, as well as risk assessments on nutrition and related health issues. The SACN undertakes robust consideration of the evidence for its risk assessments, before providing dietary recommendations.</p><p>Ministers are informed of the SACN’s publications and risk assessments on the same basis as official statistics. Following publication, ministers consider the recommendations and policy options for implementation, including for application across the United Kingdom, and involvement of the devolved administrations where appropriate.</p><p>To date, all of the SACN’s dietary recommendations have been accepted by the Government. However, on occasion, recommendations have been adapted for implementation. For example, in 2016 the SACN recommended a reference nutrient intake for vitamin D of 10 micrograms per day for the general population, for the whole year. However, the Government advises that the general population only takes a daily 10 microgram supplement during the winter months, to take account of the contribution from the sun during the summer months.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/05/2024 16:25:29 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1714683

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
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	Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the the UK Nutrient Profiling Model 2018 review, when they plan to implement an updated version of the Nutrient Profiling Model.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL4175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) is a tool that can underpin policy and implements dietary recommendations.</p><p>The United Kingdom NPM was first developed by the Food Standards Agency in 2004 to 2005 (UK 2004/5 NPM). The first Childhood Obesity Plan (2016) committed Public Health England to review the UK 2004/5 NPM and align it to the latest dietary recommendations. A robust and transparent process was undertaken to update the model, with an Independent Expert Group to provide oversight and scientific scrutiny. In 2018, as part of the process, a 12-week public consultation on the modifications made to the current UK 2004/5 NPM took place. The final version will be published in due course.</p><p>Any application of the updated NPM in a policy would be subject to normal policy making and consultation processes and would be accompanied by technical guidance to support its use and implementation. Stakeholders and interested parties would have an opportunity to comment on developing work as part of that process.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 15/05/2024 16:54:19 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1700692

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle diet-related ill-health, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
uin	HL3756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>We remain committed to promoting a healthy diet for adults and children and are delivering an ambitious programme of work to create a healthier environment to help people make healthy food choices to improve health and to tackle diet related ill health. There are a range of measures in place to support improving diets, promoting physical activity and reducing obesity.</p><p>Regulations on out of home calorie labelling for food sold in large businesses, including restaurants, cafes and takeaways, came into force in April 2022. Restrictions on the placement of products high in fat, sugar or salt in key selling locations, came into force on 1 October 2022.  We will be implementing restrictions on the sale of less healthy products by volume price such as ‘3 for 2’ and will introduce restrictions on the advertising of less healthy products before 9pm on TV and paid for less healthy product advertising online from 1 October 2025.</p><p>We are working with the food industry to make further progress on reformulation and ensure it is easier for the public to make healthier choices. The Food Data Transparency Partnership will help enable and encourage food companies to voluntarily demonstrate progress on the healthiness of their sales.</p><p>The Government continues to promote the Eatwell Guide principles through the NHS.UK website and government social marketing campaigns such as Better Health Healthier Families and Start for Life. We are also supporting more than three million children through the Healthy Foods Schemes and helping schools boost physical activity to help children maintain a healthy weight and good overall health through the Primary School PE and Sport Premium and the School Games Organiser Network.</p><p>We are continuing to support local authorities to improve the uptake of the NHS Health Check, England's cardiovascular disease prevention programme. The NHS Health Check helps to prevent a range of conditions including heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Each year the programme engages over 1 million people and prevents around 400 heart attacks or strokes.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 25/04/2024 14:19:18 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

1697833

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
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	Nutrition
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 merits of bringing forward further policies to help reduce the (a) sugar, (b) fat and (c) salt content in diets.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	19909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>Restrictions on the advertising and volume price promotions, such as buy-one-get-one free or three for £2 offers, for less healthy foods will come into force on 1 October 2025. The advertising legislation will lead to the introduction of a 9:00pm television watershed and restrict paid-for advertising of less healthy products online, United Kingdom wide.</p><p> </p><p>Impact assessments already published for these measures show that the volume price promotions restrictions are expected to accrue health benefits of £2 billion, and National Health Service savings of £180 million over 25 years. The advertising restrictions are expected to deliver health benefits of £2 billion, and NHS savings of £50 million over the next 100 years.</p><p> </p><p>Voluntary guidelines to reduce levels of sugar and salt in, and improve the labelling of, commercial baby food and drink aimed at those aged up to 36 months old, are currently being finalised and will be published in the spring.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses are being given until the end of 2025 to deliver the sugar and calorie reduction targets through the voluntary reformulation programme. These targets were due to be delivered earlier than this, but businesses have been given additional time because of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food system. The Government will continue to monitor this area, but will explore other levers if progress is not made. Through the sugar reduction workstream of the overarching reformulation programme, between 2015 and 2020 reductions in sugar levels were delivered in breakfast cereals, yogurts, and pre-packed flavoured milk based drinks of 14.9%, 13.5%, and 29.7%, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Discussions are also underway to establish a Food Data Transparency Partnership (FDTP). This is a multi-year partnership between the Government, industry, and civil society to improve access to, and the availability of, data to build consistent reporting requirements for businesses on key health and sustainability objectives.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/03/2024 15:49:32 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1697835

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
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	Nutrition
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 has had recent discussions with the food and drink sector on taking steps to provide healthy alternatives to products that are high in (a) fat, (b) sugar and (c) salt.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	19911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>Discussions have been held by officials with the food and drink sector on taking steps to provide healthier alternatives to products that are high in salt since 2004, high in sugar since 2014, and high in calories since 2017. Provision of healthier alternatives to products that are high in saturated fat have been part of those discussions.</p><p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets regularly with external stakeholders on a variety of issues. These ministerial meetings are routinely published on a quarterly basis in arrears on the GOV.UK website. However, my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will recuse herself on departmental issues relating to outside interests, all of which have been declared to the House and under the Ministerial Code.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/03/2024 16:23:14 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1612503

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
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	Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his policy to support mandatory reformulation of foods high in saturated fat, salt and sugar to improve their nutritional profile by reducing those elements.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Christian Wakeford
uin	181793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is delivering mandatory policies which support the reformulation of foods high in saturated fat, salt or sugar. These include the soft drinks industry levy and restrictions on the placement of less healthy products in key selling locations in-store and online. The Government also has a voluntary programme on reduction and reformulation to encourage the food industry to gradually and incrementally lower the levels of sugar, salt and calories in everyday foods and to stimulate the production of healthier products without consumers having to make changes.</p><p>In addition, we will be implementing restrictions on the sale of less healthy products by volume price from 1 October 2023, and restrictions on the advertising of less healthy products before 9pm on television and paid-for advertising of less healthy products online from 1 October 2025, restrictions which are also expected to support the reformulation of foods high in saturated fat, salt or sugar.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 24/04/2023 15:15:38 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4871 label Biography information for Christian Wakeford

1545526

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
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	Nutrition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the main nutrient deficiencies within the UK population; and whether they have carried out any analysis of any gender difference in that data.
tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
uin	HL3770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>The National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) provides information on dietary intakes and nutritional status for males and females by age group. The latest data from the NDNS 2016 to 2019 shows that dietary intakes of most vitamins are adequate, however there is evidence of low dietary intakes of vitamin D and of some minerals including magnesium, potassium, iodine and selenium. Assessment of nutritional status in the NDNS shows low blood levels for vitamin D and folate across age and sex groups. Low dietary intakes and blood levels of iron are also seen in women and girls.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/12/2022 12:14:03 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

1540168

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
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	Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason products containing over 50 per cent of fruit, nuts and seeds are within scope of the regulations on products high in fat, salt and sugar under category seven on sweet biscuits but out of scope under category four on confectionery.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	80961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>Our intention is only to apply the restrictions of foods high in fat, salt or sugar in stores and online to those categories of food and drink which contribute substantially to children's sugar and calorie intakes and are therefore of most concern to childhood obesity. To determine if a product is in scope of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, the product must firstly fall in one of 13 categories of food and drink listed in the regulations. Products such as sweet biscuits in category seven or confectionary in category four meet the first criteria. The approach taken regarding these specific products is aligned with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ sugar and calorie reduction and reformulation programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The Nutrient Profiling Model 2004/05 and associated 2011 technical guidance is applied to determine if a product is subject to the restrictions. This takes into account the proportion of beneficial nutrients, including fruit, nuts and seeds and nutrients of concern, such as saturated fat, sugar, salt and calories. If a food product scores four or more or a drink product scores one or more, the product is considered less healthy and in scope of the restrictions. The Government consulted on the product categories in scope of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021 between 12 January 2019 and 6 April 2019. The Government’s response to the consultation was published on 28 December 2020.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 80962 question first answered 14/11/2022 16:15:35 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1540169

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
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	Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the regulations on products high in fat, salt and sugar came into force before the publication of a consultation on which products would be in scope of those regulations; and whether his Department plans to publish a consultation.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	80962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>Our intention is only to apply the restrictions of foods high in fat, salt or sugar in stores and online to those categories of food and drink which contribute substantially to children's sugar and calorie intakes and are therefore of most concern to childhood obesity. To determine if a product is in scope of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, the product must firstly fall in one of 13 categories of food and drink listed in the regulations. Products such as sweet biscuits in category seven or confectionary in category four meet the first criteria. The approach taken regarding these specific products is aligned with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ sugar and calorie reduction and reformulation programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The Nutrient Profiling Model 2004/05 and associated 2011 technical guidance is applied to determine if a product is subject to the restrictions. This takes into account the proportion of beneficial nutrients, including fruit, nuts and seeds and nutrients of concern, such as saturated fat, sugar, salt and calories. If a food product scores four or more or a drink product scores one or more, the product is considered less healthy and in scope of the restrictions. The Government consulted on the product categories in scope of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021 between 12 January 2019 and 6 April 2019. The Government’s response to the consultation was published on 28 December 2020.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 80961 question first answered 14/11/2022 16:15:35 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1473178

registered interest
date	24/06/2022
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	Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will be introducing a Calorie Reduction Taskforce; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of that taskforce on (a) consumers and (b) businesses.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	24655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>We have no current plans to introduce a Calorie Reduction Taskforce. Any future policy will be subject to impact assessments, including consideration of the impact on individuals and business. We have an existing voluntary calorie reduction programme which was launched in 2020. This challenged all sectors of the food industry to reduce calories by 5% to 20% by 2024.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 21/07/2022 15:46:08 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer