Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when a minister last met with representatives of supermarkets in respect of their encouraging suppliers to increase the number of sugar free, sugar reduced and no sugar added foods available to customers.

Details of all Ministerial meetings with external parties are published quarterly in arrears on the Department's website. The latest publication which covers meetings up until December 2013 can be found on the Department's website:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2012-to-2013?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Eight supermarket chains are currently signed up the Public Health Responsibility Deal calorie reduction pledge and are taking actions to enable their customers to eat and drink fewer calories.