Urgent Question on the childhood obesity strategy: 23 May 2016
23 May 2016 (updated on 23 May 2016)
Minister for Community and Social Care, Alastair Burt, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East, in the House of Commons on dietary advice and the Childhood Obesity Strategy.
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