Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of limiting the sugar content of milk-based drinks.

Any soft drinks that ultimately remain out of scope of the Government’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) will be included in Public Health England’s sugar reduction and wider reformulation programme, which aims to see voluntary reductions in sugar content of 20% by 2020 across a number of food and drinks categories.

The SDIL will be applied to producers and importers of packaged added sugar drinks to encourage product reformulation, but will not apply to fruit juices, smoothies and packaged drinks containing more than 75% milk content.