Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to tackle childhood obesity by making it mandatory to label the nutritional value of food in a way that is easy for consumers to understand.

In July, as part of ‘Tackling obesity: empowering adults and children to live healthier lives’, we published a four-nation public consultation to gather views and evidence on our current front-of-pack ‘traffic light’ nutrition labelling scheme. We welcome and will consider all responses to the consultation. If evidence suggests that improvements are required, we will consult again on all policy options.

The consultation ‘Building on the success of front-of-pack nutrition labelling in the UK’ was open until 21 October and the outcomes will be published shortly.