Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to include the Eatwell Guide into Government buying standards on the public procurement of food and drink.

The Eatwell Plate (the forerunner of the Eatwell Guide) is referenced under the detailed Health and Wellbeing criteria (Section 2.1) of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) tool in the Plan for Public Procurement of Food and Catering Service 2014.