Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has had discussions with breakfast cereal manufacturers on the levels of sugar in their products.

To inform work on childhood obesity and gather technical information on sugar reduction, Public Health England (PHE) met with 40 different food companies in May and June 2016. This included major breakfast food manufacturers. Following the publication of the Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan in August, a further meeting was held with major breakfast cereal manufacturers and retailers; this focused solely on breakfast cereals.

Summaries of the meetings and PHE’s proposals will be publicly available on Gov.uk in January 2017.