Question follow-through · 6340
Energy Drinks
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a statement on the enforcement capacity of Trading Standards in respect of the proposed high-caffeine energy drinks ban.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a statement on the enforcement capacity of Trading Standards in respect of the proposed high-caffeine energy drinks ban.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government has a commitment to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children aged under 16 years old. This has been subject to consultation.In the consultation, we proposed that local authorities would be responsible for enforcing any ban. L...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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