Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what they expect the timeline to be for bringing forward energy drinks age-of-sale legislation.

The Government is taking decisive action on obesity, easing the strain on our National Health Service and creating the healthiest generation of children ever.

As part of this, we will fulfil our commitment to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children aged under 16 years old, introducing the ban within this Parliament.

We ran a 12-week consultation, which was open from 3 September 2025 to 26 November 2025. The Department is currently reviewing all submissions to the consultation and will set out a formal consultation response, and further information on our timelines, in due course.