Soft Drinks: Taxation

Department for Education written question – answered at on 18 October 2017.

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Photo of Justin Tomlinson Justin Tomlinson Conservative, North Swindon

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate the Government has made of the amount her Department will receive from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy in each year from 2018 to 2022; what proportion of that funding will be allocated to (a) the PE and Sport Premium, (b) the Healthy Pupils Capital Programme and (c) any other related sport and healthy living initiative in each of those years.

Photo of Robert Goodwill Robert Goodwill Minister of State (Education)

The government wants all pupils to be healthy and active. Every penny of England’s share of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy will be spent on projects that improve child health. The Department for Education will receive £575m from the levy, with revenue used to:

  • Double funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium to £320m a year from 2017 to 2020. £415m of the funding for the doubled premium will be provided through the Soft Drinks Levy across FY17-18 to FY19-20.

FY 2017-18

£95m*

*Funding for 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. This is the autumn payment of the 17/18 AY. Figures have been rounded.

FY 2018-19

£160m

FY 2019-20

£160m

  • Provide £100m in 2018/19 for a new healthy pupils’ capital fund.
  • Provide £60m to other relevant projects, for example breakfast clubs. The profile for this funding is yet to be agreed.

Funding for 2020-21 onwards will be assigned at the next Spending Review.

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