Sentences with phrase «fizzy drink tax»
«With his customary chutzpah and some artful media management, he made it through the day in one piece, with the help of a distractionary but welcome fizzy drink tax, a few giveaways, most disgracefully for executives with the ability to transform their income into capital gains, and a disruptive revolution in governance for England's unfortunate primary schools...
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In the UK, which faces exactly the same issue, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has put out a demand for a 20 % tax on fizzy drinks, a strict limit on fast food outlets near schools and other places where children and youth gather, the removal of junk food vending machines from hospitals, and a prohibition on junk food ads before 9.00 p.m.
How much will YOUR favourite fizzy drink cost with the sugar tax?
That section was rejected by conference, but the rest of the motion, including a rather illiberal consultation into a tax on fizzy drinks, was accepted.
«From 2018, purveyors of oversweetened fizzy drinks will be punished with a sugar tax if they continue to put children at risk of obesity and diabetes.
The findings arrive as ministers have announced plans to use funding generated from a sugar tax on fizzy drinks to subsidise after - school activities.
Clearly children's diets need attention, and there have been a number of initiatives to break the unhealthy eating habit, including: The National Healthy Schools Programme (1998 to 2009), which included healthy and nutritious foods being made available in school canteens and vending machines; The School Food Plan, (launched in 2015), which provided a new set of standards for all food served in schools, offering children more healthy, balanced diets, and withdrawing the provision of unhealthy snacks and drinks in school vending machines; and the much - publicised new sugar tax, which will be imposed on companies according to the sugar content of the energy and fizzy drinks they produce.
The proceeds of a sugar tax on fizzy drinks will boost sport in primary schools, while secondaries will get funds for after - school activities.
In international developments, Ireland has announced plans to join the growing number of countries taxing the sugar in fizzy drinks.