Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action is being taken to implement the findings of the Learning Early About Peanut study on peanut allergy.

The Food Standards Agency advise that the findings of the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) study will be considered alongside all relevant published scientific evidence by the Committee on Toxicity (COT) as part of its review on infant feeding and the development of allergic and autoimmune disease.

The Government will consider the recommendations arising from the COT review.

The COT’s statement will also be provided to the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition Subgroup on Maternal and Child Nutrition as part of its review on complementary and young child feeding.