Nursery World - London Mayor to ban junk food ads on public transport

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has unveiled plans to ban junk food advertising on tubes and buses to tackle the 'ticking timebomb' of child obesity.

Mr Khan said it was a ‘scandal’ a city as prosperous as London can have one of the highest rates of overweight and obese children in Europe.

According to the latest figures from the NHS Child Measurement Programme, 40 per cent of children aged 10 and 11 in the capital are overweight and obese. One in five children are leaving primary school obese, according to Public Health England.

Under the proposal, included in the Mayor’s draft London Food strategy, out for consultation from today, advertisements for food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar would banned across the entire Transport for London (TFL) network, including the London underground, overground and the capital’s buses and bus shelters.

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