Parliamentary Research
Food, diet, nutrition and cancer - POST-PN-0718
Apr. 23 2024

Found: Food, diet, nutrition and cancer

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Select Committee

Learning and Work Institute

SFF0064 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024

Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: SFF0064 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Learning and Work Institute Written Evidence

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Select Committee

The Skills Federation

SFF0115 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024

Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: SFF0115 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training The Skills Federation Written Evidence

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Select Committee

The Co-operative Group

SFF0122 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024

Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: SFF0122 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training The Co-operative Group Written Evidence

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Written Question

Obesity

Wednesday 27th March 2024

Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of obesity; and what steps her Department is taking to help tackle obesity.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom

The Government is delivering a wide range of measures to reduce the numbers of both adults and children who are overweight, or living with obesity. To date this includes legislative measures to limit the advertising, and location and price promotion, of less healthy products, and to ensure calorie levels are provided on menus when eating out of the home. Impact assessments for the legislated measures suggest there will be substantial health benefits, as well as savings to the National Health Service, accrued.

We have seen important successes through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), which between 2015 and 2020 has seen sugar levels reduced by 46% in, and over 46,000 tonnes of sugar removed from, products in scope of the levy. Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey from 2019 shows that sugar intakes have fallen for some age groups. In older children and adolescents, this appears to be partly driven by soft drinks contributing less to sugar intakes, likely as a result of the changes made to drinks included in the SDIL. Further information from the survey is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ndns-results-from-years-9-to-11-2016-to-2017-and-2018-to-2019

A paper on the association of obesity in primary school children and the SDIL suggests that the reduction in the sugar content of soft drinks delivered by the SDIL could have prevented up to 5,000 cases of obesity in girls in the last year of primary school. Reductions were greatest in girls who attended schools in the 40% of the most deprived areas. Further information from the paper is available at the following link:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004160

The voluntary reformulation programme requires businesses reduce levels of sugar, salt, and calories in everyday food and drink. Levels of sugar have reduced in breakfast cereals, yogurts, and pre-packed milk-based drinks by 15%, 13.5%, and 29.7% respectively, between 2015 and 2020. Levels of salt have reduced in some products by 20%.

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Select Committee

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

SFF0068 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024

Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: SFF0068 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Written

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Select Committee

Local Government Association (LGA)

YDP0074 - The transition from education to employment for young disabled people

Written Evidence Mar. 06 2024

Inquiry: Access to public services for young disabled people
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Public Services Committee

Found: a child or young person’s special educational, health, and social care needs.

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Education

Aug. 01 2024

Source Page: Top apprenticeship employers celebrated
Document: Top apprenticeship employers celebrated (webpage)

Found: The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and Top 50 Small and Medium Employers (SMEs) league tables showcase

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