Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2017 to Question 6313, on sugar, whether the 5 per cent reduction target has been met.

The assessment of achievement of the 5% reduction in the nine food categories contributing most to children’s sugar intake will be published by Public Health England (PHE) in March 2018. In this report, PHE will provide a detailed assessment of progress across the product categories included in the programme as well as by individual businesses and in high selling products. This commitment was set out in Childhood obesity: A plan for action, available to view here:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action