Soft Drinks: Taxation

(asked on 7th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contribution was made from the Soft Drinks Levy to the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund in (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 12th January 2022

The Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) came into effect in April 2018 with the aim of tackling childhood obesity by encouraging suppliers to reduce the sugar content of drinks.

The government has used receipts to support activity to promote childhood health and wellbeing. In the context of SDIL receipts, the department's budgets were increased to allow for the doubling of the PE and sport premium to £320 million from the 2017/18 academic year. We have since maintained it at that level to support primary schools to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of their Physical Education (PE), sport and physical activity provision. Details of how the PE and sport premium is allocated can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pe-and-sport-premium-for-primary-schools.

Additional funding from SDIL also allowed us to offer the £100 million Healthy Pupils Capital Fund in 2018-19. This was a one-year fund.

We have now also announced nearly £30 million per year from the 2022-23 financial year to open-up school sport facilities in England, as well as to improve the teaching of PE at primary school.

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