Obesity: Children

(asked on 22nd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Childhood Obesity Plan, when the calorie reduction programme will be implemented; and whether that programme will be mandatory.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 7th July 2020

Public Health England has been working to finalise the calorie reduction guidelines following extensive feedback from stakeholders. It is anticipated that the calorie reduction guidelines will be published later this year as part of the reduction and reformulation programme. The programme is voluntary as modelled by the salt reduction programme.

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