Question follow-through · 54238
Soft Drinks: Taxation
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
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
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
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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