Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date did each NHS trust in the North West sign up to NHS England's voluntary scheme to reduce the sale of sugar sweetened drinks in NHS canteens, shops and vending machines introduced in 2018; and which NHS trusts in that region have yet to sign up to that initiative.

Of the 35 National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in the North West region 27 are signed up to the scheme. They are below as follows, shown by the quarter by which they joined.

Q1 2017/18

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Q2 2017/18

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Q3 2017/18

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

East Cheshire NHS Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust

Q4 2017/18

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The trusts and foundation trusts not signed up yet are:

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust