sugar tax

Coca-Cola is to use smaller bottles and sell at higher prices rather than alter its famous sugar-laden secret recipe, while Irn-Bru faces a growing consumer backlash over fears a new lower sugar version will ruin Scotland’s national soft drink. The changes are part of the preparations underway...

Fears have been raised that the sugar tax, earmarked to invest in children’s sports and healthy eating programmes from April 2018, could be diverted to plug holes in education funding. Local council leaders have said the government must find new funds to pay for its boost to schools funding...

The health of children will benefit most from the sugar tax on the UK soft drinks industry, according to a study. It predicted if sugar was cut in the sweetest drinks in response to the tax, levels of tooth decay, obesity and type 2 diabetes would fall, particularly among the high-consumption...

As was discussed in the "In the news" section of the forum in November, NHS England is consulting with patients and the public to have their about plans to cut sales of sugary drinks in hospitals. There are two proposals being put forward; A fee to be paid by vendors An outright ban It's about...

Soft drinks trade body sponsored Tory drinks party attended by business secretary Greg Clark. The soft drinks industry has intensified its lobbying of the government to scrap or water down George Osborne’s sugar tax ahead of the autumn statement, sponsoring a drinks party for Tory MPs and the...

Parents of teenagers with type 1 diabetes say George Osborne's plan to raise the cost of sugary drinks will have an unintentional impact on their families. On Wednesday the chancellor unveiled plans to tax soft drinks manufacturerswho put large amounts of sugar in their products. But people...

Prime Minister David Cameron says he does not want to rule out introducing a sugar tax in order to tackle Britain's "obesity crisis". Mr Cameron said it would be better not to have to resort to new taxes but said that "what matters is we do make progress" on obesity. The PM was speaking to...

A tax on sugary drinks should be introduced as part of a "bold and urgent" set of measures to tackle child obesity in England, MPs say. The Commons' Health Committee said there was now "compelling evidence" a tax would reduce consumption. Its report, which puts pressure on ministers who have...

Chris Askew Chief Executive of Diabetes UK Calls for the Government to introduce a 20% tax on sugar sweetened soft drinks are getting stronger and stronger. Just last month Public Health England (PHE), the Government's own agency tasked with protecting the nation's health, called for a sugar...

IMPLEMENTING a sugar tax could make substantial progress in reducing dementia rates, a Scottish scientist will tell a conference this week. The debate over the introduction of a levy on sugar has focused on tackling obesity, but dementia expert Professor Craig Ritchie has now suggested it could...