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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 12 2024

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 10 April 2024 to 10 April 2024
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 10 April 2024 to 10 April 2024 (PDF)

Found: “Independent School” means: (a) a school in England or Wales (which is not an Academy, a school maintained


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
UK Visas and Immigration

Apr. 12 2024

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 10 April 2024 to 10 April 2024
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 10 April 2024 to 10 April 2024 (PDF)

Found: “Independent School” means: (a) a school in England or Wales (which is not an Academy, a school maintained


Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 12 2024

Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 4 April 2024 to 9 April 2024
Document: Immigration Rules archive: 4 April 2024 to 9 April 2024 (PDF)

Found: “Independent School” means: (a) a school in England or Wales (which is not an Academy, a school maintained


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 09 2024

Source Page: MHRA FOI performance data
Document: (Excel)

Found: Practice Research Datalink) provided by the MHRA with the support of the NIHR involving : [s40] London School


Deposited Papers

Apr. 04 2024

Source Page: I. Office of the Parliamentary Counsel drafting guidance. 112p. II. Letter dated 26/03/2024 from Penny Mordaunt MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding updated drafting guidance for deposit in the House Libraries. 1p.
Document: Drafting.pdf (PDF)

Found: Senedd Cymru (2008-2011) NHS Redress (Wales) Measure 2008 (nawm_1) Statutory instruments (from 1948) School



Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Competition and Markets Authority

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Green claims: CMA secures landmark changes from ASOS, Boohoo and Asda
Document: ASOS Annual Report 2023 (PDF)

Found: feminine womenswear brand with a girly, playful look, taking her from day to night.Influenced by old-school


Written Question
Obesity
Wednesday 27th March 2024

Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of obesity; and what steps her Department is taking to help tackle obesity.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is delivering a wide range of measures to reduce the numbers of both adults and children who are overweight, or living with obesity. To date this includes legislative measures to limit the advertising, and location and price promotion, of less healthy products, and to ensure calorie levels are provided on menus when eating out of the home. Impact assessments for the legislated measures suggest there will be substantial health benefits, as well as savings to the National Health Service, accrued.

We have seen important successes through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), which between 2015 and 2020 has seen sugar levels reduced by 46% in, and over 46,000 tonnes of sugar removed from, products in scope of the levy. Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey from 2019 shows that sugar intakes have fallen for some age groups. In older children and adolescents, this appears to be partly driven by soft drinks contributing less to sugar intakes, likely as a result of the changes made to drinks included in the SDIL. Further information from the survey is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ndns-results-from-years-9-to-11-2016-to-2017-and-2018-to-2019

A paper on the association of obesity in primary school children and the SDIL suggests that the reduction in the sugar content of soft drinks delivered by the SDIL could have prevented up to 5,000 cases of obesity in girls in the last year of primary school. Reductions were greatest in girls who attended schools in the 40% of the most deprived areas. Further information from the paper is available at the following link:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004160

The voluntary reformulation programme requires businesses reduce levels of sugar, salt, and calories in everyday food and drink. Levels of sugar have reduced in breakfast cereals, yogurts, and pre-packed milk-based drinks by 15%, 13.5%, and 29.7% respectively, between 2015 and 2020. Levels of salt have reduced in some products by 20%.


Written Question
School Milk
Tuesday 26th March 2024

Asked by: Lord Hampton (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential (1) social, and (2) economic, benefits of expanding the School Milk Subsidy Scheme to provide a free one third of a pint portion of milk to all primary school age children each day attending school.

Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Milk is an excellent food for children’s growth and development. This is why, as part of the School Food Standards, schools are already required to ensure milk is available to all pupils who want it during school hours. The National School Milk Subsidy Scheme can be used by primary schools to reduce the cost of milk for all their pupils.

Thanks to Universal Infant Free School Meals, pupils under seven years old are already eligible for free milk when it is offered as part of their school lunch. Older pupils entitled to benefits related free school meals are also eligible for free milk when made available during the school day. This is in addition to the free milk provided for children under five-years-old thanks to the Nursery Milk Scheme.

As with free school meals, the department believes it is important to support those most in need and to ensure policy remains affordable and deliverable for schools. The department does not have plans to change the current eligibility conditions for the scheme.


Select Committee
University of Sao Paulo, University of North Carolina, and University of Chile

Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024

Inquiry: Food, Diet and Obesity
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee

Found: front-of-package warning labels, strict marketing restrictions of unhealthy foods and protection in school