"People are not choosing to be unhealthy. Multi-buy price promotions encourage people to impulsively buy more unhealthy food, rather than make savings from healthier food already on their shopping list - it is a false economy. This puts extra pressure on families with tight food budgets, not less. Major supermarkets appear to have a better understanding of this than this government, despite it being a key part of their evidence-based childhood obesity strategy. We urge the government to reconsider the delay to the multi-buy restrictions, and to start making the healthy choice, the easier and cheaper choice, now."
Full signatory list
Kath Dalmeny, Chief Executive, Sustain
Katharine Jenner, Director, Obesity Health Alliance
Professor Kevin Fenton, President, Faculty of Public Health
Chris Askew, CEO, Diabetes UK
LIz Stockley, CEO, British Dietetic Association
John Maingay, Director of Policy and Influencing, British Heart Foundation
Nick Grossman, Obesity Action UK
Professor Jim McManus, President, Association of Directors of Public Health
Hugo Harper, Mission Director, A Healthy Life, Nesta
Rebecca Sunter, Children’s Health and Food Programme Director, Impact on Urban Health
James Toop, CEO, Bite Back 2030
Nigel Shattock, Director of Communications & Engagement, World Cancer Research Fund
Professor David Strain, Chair, BMA Board of Science Committee
Dr Nicola Heslehurst, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Association for the Study of Obesity
Jonathan Pauling, CEO, Alexandra Rose Charity
Anna Taylor, Executive Director, Food Foundation
Barbara Crowther, Children’s Food Campaign Manager, Sustain
Professor Maria Bryant, Fix our Food, University of York
Alison Morton, CEO, Institute of Health Visiting
Dr Nigel Carter OBE, Chief Executive, Oral Health Foundation
Stephanie Slater, Founder/Chief Executive, School Food Matters
J. Paul Wright, Public Health Affairs FFPH FRSPH
Professor Graham MacGregor, Chairman, Action on Salt and Action on Sugar
Dr Adrian Brown, Chair, British Dietetic Association Obesity Specialist Group
Kristin Bash, Chair, Food SIG, Faculty of Public Health
Dr Vicky Sibson, Director, First Steps Nutrition Trust
Matthew Philpott, Executive Director, Health Equalities Group
Dr Alex Richardson, Founder Director, Food and Behaviour (FAB) Research UK
Pamela Healy OBE, Chief Executive, British Liver Trust
Rob Percival, Head of Food Policy, Soil Association
Professor Rachel Batterham, Chair, Obesity Empowerment Network
Dr Sarah Clarke, President, Royal College of Physicians (RCP)
Professor Emma Boyland, Chair of Food Marketing and Child Health, University of Liverpool
Professor Amandine Garde, Director of Law & Non-Communicable Research Unit, University of Liverpool
Tamsin Brewis, Director, Children’s Alliance