Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government’s strategy, Tackling obesity: empowering adults and children to live healthier lives, published on 27 July 2020, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of future trade deals on the implementation of that strategy.

Public health issues such as obesity are being actively considered by the Department as part of trade policy development. It is our ambition that trade deals will help to improve the accessibility and affordability of healthier foods.