Soft Drinks: Taxation

(asked on 30th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Secretary for State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.95 of the Budget 2016, how much has been allocated on the policies listed in that paragraph in financial year 2017-18.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 1st December 2017

Budget 2016 announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.

  • Funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium has been doubled to £320 million for academic year 2017/18. Funding for the premium is paid in academic years, with 7/12ths of the funding paid in the autumn term and the remaining 5/12ths in the summer term. In financial year 2017-18 £95 million will be provided from the soft drinks industry levy.

  • We published an invitation to tender on the 16 October 2017 indicating that we are investing £26 million from the levy over the next three years to expand breakfast club provision. The expectation is that £1 million funding will be provided in 2017-18 to the breakfast club programme.

  • We announced in February 2017 the healthy pupils’ capital programme will build on the government’s plans for schools to provide a longer school day by changing the focus of the scheme to provide new facilities or improve existing ones to make it easier for a range of extra-curricular activities to be provided. Funding for the healthy pupils capital fund will be provided in 2018-19.

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