Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recommendations of the report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition on<i> Vitamin D and health</i>, what steps they are taking in conjunction with Public Health England to raise public awareness of the need for greater intake of vitamin D through dietary supplementation and safe sun exposure.

Following the recommendations of the report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition on Vitamin D and Health, Public Health England has updated advice on vitamin D on the NHS Choices website. A copy of the NHS Choices advice webpage is attached.

The Government has looked at groups where dietary recommendations are not being reached and has decided that in these cases mandatory fortification is not the right way forward. There is no plan to introduce it for vitamin D in England.