Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits for business costs of temporarily suspending regulations on products high in fat, salt and sugar.

The impact assessments for restricting promotions and further advertising restrictions for products high in fat, salt or sugar show a positive net present value for each policy, showing that the health benefits outweigh the costs to business and the Government. Any pause to the regulations would delay the health benefits we expect these policies to deliver.