Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will consider the fortification of foods with vitamin D in order to implement the Reference Nutrient Intake for vitamin D recommended by the report of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition on <i>Vitamin D and health</i>.

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.