Question follow-through · 98018
Soft Drinks: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review the sugar content of powdered milk based drinks and include those products within the scope of the soft drinks industry levy.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review the sugar content of powdered milk based drinks and include those products within the scope of the soft drinks industry levy.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
At Autumn Budget 2024, the Chancellor announced her intention to review the Soft Drinks Industry levy (SDIL) to drive further product reformulation, whilst maintaining the fundamental design of the levy as a tax on pre-packaged soft drinks with added suga...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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