Schools: Health and Well-being Debate

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Schools: Health and Well-being

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Scotland: Block Grant
Monday 15th June 2015

(9 years, 2 months ago)

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Lord Campbell-Savours Portrait Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab)
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My Lords, cigarettes damage health, so we introduced taxes to put the price up and save lives. Why can we not target certain types of food and drink in exactly the same way?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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We certainly do target certain types of food in schools, such as crisps, as being unhealthy. That is what the school food standards are all about. As for taxing sugar et cetera, that, I am afraid, is rather out of my ken.

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