| Heading: |
Soft Drinks: Taxation |
| Question ID: |
1805583 |
| UIN: |
54238 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1521 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mrs Sharon Hodgson
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| Asking Member handle: |
SharonHodgsonMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@SharonHodgsonMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending exemptions to the proposed lactose allowance for milk-based drinks to equivalent milk-substitute drinks as part of the Soft Drinks Industr |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4797 |
| Answering Member display name: |
James Murray
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| Answering Member handle: |
jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answer text: |
At Autumn Budget 2024 the Chancellor announced her intention to review the Soft Drinks Industry levy (SDIL) – which has incentivised producers to remove almost half (46%) the sugar in relevant drinks – to further drive product reformulation. The ‘Strength... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |