Soft Drinks: Sales
(asked on 3rd June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of trends in regular soft drinks sales over the last 10 years.
Defra’s Family Food Survey estimates household average expenditure on, and purchased quantities of food and drink. The latest ten years of UK estimates for soft drinks and the proportion of spending on low calorie and regular drinks are shown below. Further estimates going back to 1992 are available in the Family Food Survey which can be found on the GOV.UK website.
UK household expenditure on soft drinks
Average pence per person per week
Description | 2005-06 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
Soft drinks | 77 | 81 | 79 | 81 | 85 | 89 | 93 | 96 | 100 | 95 |
Soft drinks, concentrated, not low calorie | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
Soft drinks, not concentrated, not low calorie | 47 | 47 | 47 | 48 | 52 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 51 |
Soft drinks, concentrated, low calorie | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
Soft drinks, not concentrated, low calorie | 17 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 30 |
Low calorie | 25% | 28% | 29% | 28% | 27% | 30% | 37% | 39% | 40% | 40% |
Not low calorie | 75% | 72% | 71% | 73% | 73% | 70% | 63% | 61% | 60% | 60% |