United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 907235
Food: Advertising
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7 January 2026
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13 January 2026 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the junk food advertising ban on trends in the level of obesity.
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7 January 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the junk food advertising ban on trends in the level of obesity.
Source: Commons
13 January 2026
Answer
Our manifesto commitment to restrict junk food TV advertising before 9pm, and online at all times, was a moral imperative. This measure is expected to remove around 7.2 billion calories from children’s diets each year and prevent 20,000 cases of childhood...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-01-07/907235
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1870595
- uk · wq-1870595 · source updated 13 January 2026