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Soft Drinks: Taxation

Question for Treasury

UIN 242732, tabled on 9 April 2019

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy since it was introduced in April 2018.

Answered on

12 April 2019

Since its inception, the SDIL has been leading the way in sugar reduction programmes, and over half of sugary drinks have been reformulated, effectively removing 45 million kilogrammes of sugar every year from diets.

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Treasury