Recipe for Change open letter to Chancellor and Health Secretary, November 2024

Whilst the Government has promised to review the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, the scale of the health emergency means we absolutely must reduce the excess sugar and salt in the foods we eat too.

Our new polling makes it clear that the public does not trust companies to make products healthier without government intervention. They are right - the voluntary food industry initiatives have not made progress, and will end next year, so the Government needs to go further and faster now to get companies doing the right thing.

That’s we’ve brought together 35 leading health, food and children’s advocacy groups in calling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting to go further than they did in the budget, and set out a more ambitious plan for a healthier food industry.