Written questions

Infant Foods: Sugar

Commons · Question 39222 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 28 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Luke Charters

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of improving product labelling on sugar content in food for children under the age of two.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 28 Mar 2025

Children’s early years provide an important foundation for their future health and strongly influences many aspects of well-being in later life. Data shows that babies and young children are eating too much sugar, and that some commercial baby foods, part...