Vitamin D: Dietary Supplements
Commons · Question 110577 · 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, if he will make it his policy to extend access to free and subsidized vitamin D supplements to at-risk groups identified in NICE PH56.
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, ...