Public Health Responsibility Deal

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Excerpts

Tuesday 14th January 2014 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, we are talking to the supermarket chains about those very matters, and I welcome the action that has been taken. The noble Lord may like to know that, as part of the responsibility deal calorie reduction pledge, Coca-Cola has reduced calories in some of its soft-drink brands by at least 30%, Mars has reduced its single chocolate portions to no more than 250 calories and Tesco has reduced by more than 1 billion the number of calories sold in its own-brand soft drinks.

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab)]

My Lords, will the Minister help the House by publishing a list of meetings which Ministers, special advisers and senior civil servants have had with fast food companies in the past year?

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, I shall take that request away and write to the noble Lord.