Question follow-through · 22582

Energy Drinks: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding will be provided to local authorities to enforce the proposed ban on high caffeine energy drinks.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 28 Aug 2026
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2026
Answer: 7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding will be provided to local authorities to enforce the proposed ban on high caffeine energy drinks.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the documentation published at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/banning-the-sale-of-high-caffeine-energy-drinks-to-children

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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