Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the recommendations of the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform to create a new regulatory framework for novel health foods and supplements to promote investment in the UK as a leader in the nutraceutical sector.

Lord Frost wrote to the Chair of the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform (TIGRR) on 16 September 2021 providing a full, area by area, response to the TIGRR recommendations.

The letter concluded, with regards to the recommendations for a new regulatory framework for novel health foods and supplements, that the United Kingdom already has in place the legislation and processes required for the regulation of such products. As such, there are no current plans to implement a new regulatory framework.

The Government will continue to watch the international development of the novel health foods and supplements market.

The letter can be read at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1018389/Letter_from_Lord_Frost_to_Sir_Iain_Duncan_Smith_on_the_Taskforce_on_Innovation__Growth_and_Regulatory_Reform.pdf