Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to impact assessment 13013 published by his Department on 25 May 2021, whether his Department still plans to publish a review of the advertising and promotional restrictions within the first 5 years of enforcement.

Our 10-Year Health Plan for England set out the decisive action we are taking on the obesity crisis, to ease the strain on our National Health Service and to create the healthiest generation of children ever. As part of this, we implemented United Kingdom-wide restrictions on the advertising of less healthy food and drinks on television and online from 5 January 2026. We also implemented restrictions on volume price promotions for less healthy food and drinks, such as three for two offers, in stores and their online equivalents across England from 1 October 2025. These are in addition to the restrictions that have already been in place since 2022 on the promotion by location of less healthy food and drink products in stores and their equivalent places online.

We will monitor the effectiveness of these advertising and promotions restrictions with a Post Implementation Review within five years of them taking legal effect.