Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the Government's calorie reduction programme.

In August 2017 Public Health England (PHE) was commissioned by the Government to start work on a programme to reduce calorie intakes. The programme will seek to remove excess calories from the foods children consume the most.

PHE is currently considering the evidence for calorie reduction and will publish a report in early 2018. This report will set out the health and economic benefits for reducing children’s calorie intakes and the results of early discussions with the food industry and public health organisations.

PHE will publish detailed calorie reduction guidelines for food categories later in 2018. Details of the programme can be found here:

www.gov.uk/government/news/next-stage-of-world-leading-childhood-obesity-plan-announced