Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2016 to Question 55157, how his Department plans to ensure that progress will be regularly and transparently monitored on the food industry's reduction of sugar in its products; who will be responsible for conducting such monitoring; and how and at what frequency the public will be made aware of the outcome of such monitoring.

Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for the structured, transparent monitoring of the sugar reduction programme. Interim reports will be published every six months and a more comprehensive audit of progress will be provided at 18 and 36 months after publication of the targets in March 2017. Information will be made available on the GOV.UK website so that external bodies and members of the public can view and scrutinise the data.