Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department’s consultation on calorie labelling for food and drink served outside the home includes alcoholic drinks.

The consultation on mandating calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector was launched as part of a package of measures with the primary aim of reducing childhood obesity. We welcome and will consider all responses to the consultation, including whether this policy should be extended to alcoholic drinks. However, our intention at this stage is focused on food and non-alcoholic drinks.