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Government breaks promise over sugar tax and kids' health

The government has broken the promise to pump millions of pounds of sugary drinks tax money into improving children’s healthy diets, campaigners say.

Food Campaigners and MPs are today calling on the government to maintain a pledge when the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL, also known as the Sugary Drinks Tax), was introduced, that ‘every penny of England’s share of the spending raised by the Levy will go towards improving children’s health’.[i]

In the first year of the levy, the government announced a series of investments in 2018/19, including £160 million to double thePrimary PE and Sports Premium, a one-year Healthy Pupils Capital Fund of £100 million, up to £26 million over two years for a new National School Breakfast Programme, and £22 million for the Enhancing Life Skills programme.

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