Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring the labelling of alcoholic drinks to include information on calorie content, Chief Medical Officer low-risk drinking guidelines or other health information.

Public Health England’s evidence review on the public health burden of alcohol found that alcohol health warning labels on alcoholic products can raise awareness of the messages they contain and inclusion of nutritional information, guidelines and health warnings may increase the effectiveness of the effects a label has on a person’s drinking. The review was published in December 2016 and is available online at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-public-health-burden-of-alcohol-evidence-review

The Government continues to work with the alcohol industry and other partners to build on the actions to date on consumer information; enabling people to make decisions about when and how much they drink and helping to reduce alcohol-related health harms.