Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making to align the UK’s descriptor guidance for low and no alcohol products with that employed by the EU and other international trade partners.

In the 10-Year Health Plan, the Government has committed to consult on raising the upper alcohol limit for drinks labelled as alcohol-free to 0.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) from 0.05% ABV, which would bring the labelling guidance for no and low alcohol drink alternatives for England into alignment with international standards and several EU countries.

Departmental officials are progressing work to take forward this commitment, and we will update stakeholders in due course.

Alongside the plan, a large multi-year National Institute for Health and Care Research study is underway to examine the public health impacts of NoLo products, and we look forward to the findings the study being available later this year.