Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make it mandatory for pre-packaged food to contain traffic light labelling on the front of the packaging.

The United Kingdom-wide voluntary front of pack nutrition labelling scheme has been developed to be compliant with European Union legislation and has been voluntarily adopted by most UK food retailers and several manufacturers. The UK’s decision to leave the EU may give us an opportunity to develop greater flexibility, as the exit terms are agreed, to determine what information should be presented and how it should be displayed in the UK.