Sugar in Food and Drinks (Targets, Labelling and Advertising)

Bills Presented – in the House of Commons at 12:53 pm on 14 September 2016.

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Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57)

Geraint Davies, supported by Graham Jones, Alex Cunningham, Julie Cooper, Louise Haigh, Mark Durkan, Tommy Sheppard, Sir David Amess, Dr Philippa Whitford and Dr Julian Lewis, presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to set targets for sugar content in food and drinks; to provide that added sugar content on food and drink labelling be represented in terms of the number of teaspoonfuls of sugar; to provide for standards of information provision in advertising of food and drinks; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 4 November, and to be printed (Bill 70).