Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions (a) Ministers, (b) special Advisers and (c) senior officials of his Department have had with representatives of (i) the Food and Drink Federation, (ii) Coca-Cola, (iii) PepsiCo and (iv) the British Soft Drinks Association in each of the last 18 months; and what the subject of each of those meetings was.

Details of all Ministerial and Special Adviser meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the GOV.UK website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-overseas-travel-and-meetings

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/special-advisers-gifts-hospitality-and-media

In addition, details of meetings between officials from the Department and representatives from the Food and Drink Federation, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the British Soft Drinks Association in the last 18 months are provided in the table below. These dates are not mutually exclusive and a number show meetings at which more than one organisation was in attendance. Discussions, a number of which were led by Public Health England, have included the soft drinks industry levy, sugar reduction and the wider reformulation programme.