Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases
Commons · Question 110574 · Tabled 3 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 11 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Clive Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) collect and (b) publish vitamin D deficiency statistics broken down by ethnicity.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 11 Feb 2026
In 2016, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) published a robust assessment of the evidence on vitamin D and a wide range of health outcomes resulting in the current advice for everyone to take a 10 microgram, or 400 international units, ...