Advertising Restrictions on Less Healthy Food

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Excerpts

Monday 14th July 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)]

I completely agree with the noble Lord and I have personal experience from my background. It is empowering when a parent presents at a community organisation with a child who has an eating disorder or who is becoming obese, and they work together through cooking, education and shopping. All those things are fundamental and they need to be reinforced in schools, and I agree with the noble Lord that we need to tackle this on all levels. We obviously have to have the top-down measures that we were talking about earlier, but changing habits is going to be transformational.

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB)]

My Lords, given the commercial determinants of ill health that are now clear, what work are the Government doing with local authorities to make sure that shops such as greengrocers are available on high streets across the country, so that children can work through the lessons that they might learn in school and be encouraged to eat healthily and have healthy snacks rather than be tempted by the supermarket shelves, which are certainly peddling foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar?