Letter to the Secretary of State on Healthier Food Reporting and Targets

We have signed a letter to the Secretary of State, organised by the Obesity Health Alliance, calling on the Government to urgently publish the consultation on Healthier Food Reporting and Targets.

In the letter, which has been signed by 67 organisations, including Bite Back, Nesta, and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, we have said that the policy could help create a healthier food environment, support businesses to improve the products they sell, and reduce obesity and diet-related ill health.

Currently, more than one in five children in Year Six are now living with obesity, rising to nearly one in three in our most deprived communities. Creating healthier food environments is important to reduce these unfair differences in health outcomes and give everyone a fairer chance at living a healthier life, for longer.