Welsh Government launches Healthy Food Environment consultation

The Welsh Government wants to hear your views and comments on proposals to improve making healthier food choices.  The Healthy Food Environment Consultation explores what action could be taken to improve the food environment in Wales and help make the healthy choice, the easy choice. It is an action from the Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales Strategy.  This consultation includes proposals under three themes:

• Healthier Shopping Baskets – for promotions and marketing to be rebalanced
  towards healthier choices to increase the affordability of healthier options.
• Healthier Eating out of our Homes – to improve the information available to us
  when eating out of the home and to build on the success of the Sugar Levey
  on soft drinks.
• Healthier Local Food Environments – to shift the balance, so that our daily
  journeys through the places we live can help to promote positive choices,
  including to explore the role of Hot Food Takeaways around schools.

How to respond

Submit your comments by 1 September 2022, in any of the following ways:

You can read more about the Food Environment Consultation along with the proposal to end the sale of energy drinks to children under 16 here.

* A stakeholder event has been organised to discuss the proposals in more detail and will take place on Tuesday, 19 July. More info below *