Organisations call for sugary drinks tax in UK
date:Jan 30, 2013
makes three recommendations for Budget 2013 to:

Introduce a sugary drinks duty for the UK which, for example at 20p per litre, would raise around 1 billion a year;

Ring-fence the majority of money raised from a sugary drinks duty for a Childrens Future Fund, which could be spent on improving childrens health by, for example, providing free school meals, or sustainably produced fruit and vegetable snacks in schools; and

Give an independent body the responsibility to oversee how the sugary dri
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