Soft Drinks: Sugar
(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to encourage soft drinks companies to reduce the amount of sugar in their products.
This question was answered on 3rd April 2017
The Government announced a soft drinks industry levy, which will be paid by the producers and importers of added sugar soft drinks to encourage them to remove added sugar from their products. Any drinks that remain out of scope of the levy will be included in Public Health England’s sugar reduction programme.