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...