Question follow-through · 58098
Soft Drinks: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy thresholds on business competitiveness.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy thresholds on business competitiveness.
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) is globally recognised as a transformative health intervention. After SDIL was announced, the average sugar content of soft drinks in scope of the levy fell 46% between 2015 and 2020. These positive health impacts have...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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