Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce stricter measures to prohibit the advertisement to children in supermarkets of drink products with sugar content over the maximum adult daily intake recommended by the World Health Organisation.

The Government is working in voluntary partnership with industry, including supermarkets, to take a range of actions to reduce the sugar in the food and drink they produce and retail; this can include encouraging their customers to choose healthier options; reformulating products; and providing clear nutritional labelling.

We will consider whether more needs to be done, and the most appropriate approaches to tackling sugar intake in children and adults once the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition have published their final report, Carbohydrates and Health, and we have received and considered advice from Public Health England on sugar in the diet. These are expected to be published in late spring 2015.