Question follow-through · 9631
Soft Drinks: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to expand the Soft Drinks Industry Levy to milk based drinks.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to expand the Soft Drinks Industry Levy to milk based drinks.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
The SDIL is internationally recognised as a successful tax intervention, with measurable reformulation and consequent health impacts. As with all taxes, the Government keeps SDIL under review as part of its Budget process.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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