Statement on Government response to House of Lords report
The House of Lords Committee report, 'Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system' published on October 2024, made a series of wide ranging recommendations on improving the food system.
On 30th January 2025, the Government published their response to the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee’s report
The Government welcomes the House of Lords report and acknowledges the importance of tackling the obesity crisis and improving our food environment.
The Government response references existing activities to improve diet-related health such as restrictions on promotions of HFSS and setting up breakfast clubs for primary schools. It also underlines the importance of existing commitments to improving data on the food supply as part of the Food Data Transparency Partnership.
Forthcoming commitments including the Government’s health mission and food strategy are also highlighted. However, there are a number of recommendations from the House of Lords report where commitments for implementation are not made in the response.
We are pleased to see that the Government acknowledges the diet-related health challenges faced in the UK and the impact this has both on people and our economy. We welcome the existing policy commitments made reduce intakes of high fat, salt and sugar foods and to provision of breakfast clubs in schools. We also look forward to further announcements on the Governments health mission and food strategy.
However, we note that there is still much progress needed to promote health and wellbeing and prevent diet-related ill health in the UK and hope that the commitment to further action is maintained.
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