Schools: Food Nutrition Standards Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Food Nutrition Standards

Lord Mawhinney Excerpts
Thursday 11th February 2016

(8 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I think I can agree that were it to be introduced, it would not be mandatory.

Lord Mawhinney Portrait Lord Mawhinney (Con)
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My Lords, in his first response my noble friend talked about new guidelines coming in last year that reduced the amounts of fat, salt and sugar in school diets. Could he tell the House what percentage reductions occurred in each of those three categories?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I cannot. I am happy to write to the noble Lord, but I believe that the amount of sugar cannot be more than 5%. I will write with details.