Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to require that all sugars, including free sugars, are clearly labelled on food designed for consumption by children under the age of 5.

Following the commitment in the ‘Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s’ Green Paper, we plan to launch a consultation on measures to improve infant food marketing and labelling. This consultation will consider the marketing and labelling of all food and drink products for infants and young children up to 36 months. The objective is to ensure that commercial food and drinks products for infants are age-appropriate; aligned with dietary guidelines; and support healthy development. This includes ensuring parents and carers are equipped with clear, transparent and accurate product information that supports them to make healthier choices for their children. The consultation will be published shortly.