Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of adding carcinogenic warnings to the packaging of processed meats, such as ham and bacon.

It is the responsibility of the Food Standards Agency to assess the safety of food products, and we will continue to be guided by their recommendations. Separately, through our National Cancer Plan, we are working to ensure that the National Health Service remains at the cutting edge of global research into the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, and the United Kingdom scientific bodies leading that work are constantly exploring new evidence to that end.