Found: Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]: HL Bill
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it his policy to increase the price of unhealthy food to subsidise healthier foods.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
We have a comprehensive strategy to improve diets, and to make the healthier choice the easier choice. The Government’s measures with regards to healthy food are focused on consumer behaviour and providing a safety net to those families who need it the most.
Between 2015 and 2020, we have reduced the sugar content of soft drinks by 46% through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, and our voluntary sugar reduction programme has reduced sugar in breakfast cereals by 14.9%. We are also supporting families from low-income households to eat a healthier diet by investing in the Healthy Start scheme, and our School Fruit and Vegetables Scheme has provided nearly 415 million portions of produce to approximately 2.2 million pupils in 2023/24.
From October 2025, we will be introducing an online and television watershed to restrict advertising of unhealthy food and drink, as well as restrictions on the promotion of less healthy foods by volume price, restricting offers such as three for two, both in store and online.
Written Evidence May. 22 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0043 - Food, Diet and Obesity British Heart Foundation Written Evidence
Aug. 05 2024
Source Page: Planning guidance: letters to chief planning officersFound: Local Plan Issues Health and Social Care Act 2012 The Health and Social Care Act 2012 abolishes Strategic
Sep. 02 2024
Source Page: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: 1 to 8 May 2024Found: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: 1 to 8 May 2024
Oct. 07 2024
Source Page: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: 9 to 31 May 2024Found: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: 9 to 31 May 2024
Mentions:
1: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) There are steps that the UK Government can also take.We need to fix the crisis in social care. - Speech Link
2: Harvie, Patrick (Green - Glasgow) empty homes, the transient visitor levy and the workplace parking levy. - Speech Link
3: McKee, Ivan (SNP - Glasgow Provan) levy powers for local government, support for social care investment, and taxing social media companies - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) also make those hours available to the two-year-olds who need it most.In our health and social care - Speech Link
2: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) Although the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care has launched a national conversation, we do - Speech Link
3: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) In addition to what we have heard so far, in relation to my portfolio of health and social care, the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Greene, Jamie (Con - West Scotland) affordability of housing; access to health, social care and education; the growth of businesses; and - Speech Link
2: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) The next portfolio is health and social care. - Speech Link
3: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) and social care partnerships and to consider best practice and improved service in the redesigning of - Speech Link
4: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) That concludes portfolio questions on health and social care. - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 24 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: FDO0110 - Food, Diet and Obesity Local Government Association (LGA) Written Evidence