To confirm that the levy only minimally impacted on the share value of the four companies listed in the UK suggests the SDIL is a win for public health and economically viable.”. About the index | Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI). The sales-weighted mean sugar content of soft drinks fell from 4.4 g/100 ml in 2015 to 2.9 g/100 ml in 2018. The arrival of a new sugar tax on soft drinks last Friday has been welcomed by many public health bodies. [cited 2019 Sep 19]. For Pepsi, sugar-free Max rose 17%. BIA-Obesity | INFORMAS. 2017 [cited 2017 May 17]. The UK 'Sugar Tax' on sugary drinks is unlikely to have an impact on childhood obesity rates, warn researchers from Nottingham University. These products make a small contribution to overall sales (2% in 2018), and re-running the analysis to exclude these 12 brands made no substantive difference to the main results. The mean sugar content of soft drinks declined by 34% throughout the period, with the greatest decrease in 2017–2018, the year the SDIL was implemented. Juan A. Rivera is director of the Mexican Research Centre in Nutrition at the National Institute of Public Health.. Mexico faces an epidemic of obesity and has one of the highest intakes of sugary drinks in the world. Available from: http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN18042742, Bandy L, Adhikari V, Jebb S, Rayner M. The use of commercial food purchase data for public health nutrition research: a systematic review. We identified soft drink manufacturers in the market in 2018, including retailers who manufacture their own-label products, using data obtained from Euromonitor. • Evidence shows that a tax on sugary drinks that rises prices by 20% can lead to a reduction in consumption of around 20%, thus preventing obesity and diabetes (9). Providing greater transparency about individual company’s responses would also enable government, non-government organisations and investors to benchmark companies, and highlight those who are making the most, or least, change towards public health nutrition goals. Sales-weighted mean sugar content of soft drinks by product type, 2015–2018. Firstly, it avoids the reliance on individual recall of consumption, and secondly, the datasets include greater detail about individual brands. Changes in 100% juice and sports drinks were minimal. Comparison of our dataset against other datasets used in the NIHR-funded SDIL Evaluation project [10] suggests that our datasets included the majority of drinks available in the UK marketplace. The proportion of sugar sold from tax-exempt products, e.g. Why is the UK introducing a sugar tax on soft drinks? The amount of sugar people in England consumed overall from such foods as cakes, biscuits and confectionary rose by 2.6% between 2015 and 2018. … 2016;6:e011295. Moreover, the available evidence on sales data from countries that have implemented a tax on sugar products also aligns with these findings to suggest that purchases have reduced since the tax was implemented. For 12 of these brands, it was because they were not sold in the supermarkets included in the Brand View database. The number of unique products included in this study is likely to be an underestimate of the total number of products on the market for two reasons. Available from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445503/SACN_Carbohydrates_and_Health.pdf, Tedstone A, Targett V, Owtram G, Pyne V, Allen R, Bathrellou K, et al. The education secretary said primary, secondary and sixth form colleges will be able to use the money – dubbed the Healthy Pupils Capital Programme – to pay for sports facilities, after school activities and healthy eating. © 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The volume sales of soft drinks by category, 2015–2018. The total volume of sugars sold from soft drinks decreased by 29%, from 368,000 t in 2015 to 261,000 t in 2015 (Table 2). Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ndns-results-from-years-7-and-8-combined. When multiple products were available under a single sales figure, we used an average sugar level from all identified products in the Brand View datasets. The total UK population size was used to calculate the per capita figures. This analysis shows that despite a 5% increase in the volume sales of soft drinks in per capita terms, the sale of sugars from these products decreased by 30% between 2015 and 2018, equivalent to a reduction in 4.6 g sugar per capita per day. The sugar tax is a tax on soft drinks. Second, taking our data from single time points means that we have not captured the churn of soft drink products over the year (e.g. Participants 1508 survey respondents were used to model weight change … The nutrient composition data were collected from three supermarket websites (Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco) at single time points in the four years included in the analysis. Sugar levy had no lasting negative impacts on the UK soft drinks industry, https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png. PS contributed to the study design, data analysis, data interpretation and manuscript preparation. A SSB tax can also prompt manufacturers to reformulate sugar levels downward, as seen in the United Kingdom even before the SSB tax was introduced in April 2018. Data were only available for four annual time points and were insufficient to analyse how sugar levels changed immediately before and after the announcement or introduction of the SDIL, or to estimate the specific impact of the SDIL in comparison with the general trend of sugar reduction in soft drinks. Public Health England; Sugar reduction: report on progress between 2015 and 2018 [Internet]. Dr Cherry Law, Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the paper’s lead author, said: “Overall, the abnormal stock returns in response to the SDIL news we observed were negative but short-lived. Products with less than 5 g sugar per 100 ml are not subject to the tax [5]. There are two rates of tax, depending on the sugar content: the ‘standard rate’ (18p per litre) applies to drinks with sugar content between 5 grams and up to (but not including) 8 grams per … The implementation of the sugar tax in each of these three countries highlights the unlikely chance of a low tax amount having much long-term impact. Part of Mexico’s sugar tax appears to be having a significant impact for the second year running in changing the habits of a nation famous for … Mail Online covered the latest smoking figures, which revealed the number of smokers in the UK has fallen to 6.8 million, dropping by 1 million since last year. This dataset, and other sources of food sales data, would benefit from the inclusion of population demographic factors in the future, including socioeconomic and geographic measures. We estimated the total contribution of sugar to the food supply for all of the companies in the soft drinks sector by pairing brand-level sales data with individual product-level nutrient composition data on an annual basis for four consecutive years from 2015 to 2018. The rate of change accelerated between 2017 and 2018, which also implies that the implementation of the SDIL acted as an extra incentive for companies to reformulate above and beyond what was already being done as part of voluntary commitments to reformulation, or changes in sales driven by consumer preferences. The corresponding author attests that all listed authors meet the authorship criteria and that no others meeting the criteria have been omitted. Within the Euromonitor dataset, the granularity by brand differed from company to company. In July 2015 the British Medical Association (BMA) urged the governmentto introduce a 20 per cent tax on sugar, saying it would combat escalating rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The new tax is applied to soft drinks with a certain amount of sugar per litre. If it sells this much again next year, it could run up a bill of whopping £124.7m, being … Mail Online covered the findings, which show the average sugar content in soft drinks has fallen over 28% since 2015 – that’s 10 times more than sugary … 2017 [cited 2017 Sep 6]. The nutrition information for brands that are not sold in the three supermarkets represented in the Brand View database (n = 12) had to be collected manually from the brand website in 2019. INFORMAS - Benchmarking food environments. This analysis does not provide an assessment of the impact of the SDIL. Many just love the taste, others dislike the artificial sweetener, and some don’t like being told what to drink. How sugar is made . The annual changes from 2015 to 18 were − 7, − 10 and − 13%. However, this paper is not an evaluation of the SDIL, and further work using a more granular time series is currently being conducted [10]. The UK has a well-publicising obesity epidemic, and many are hoping the tax can reduce sugar … The tax rate is 18p per litre for soft drinks with 5-8g of sugar per 100ml and 24p per litre for soft drinks with 8g or more sugar per litre. Bandy, L.K., Scarborough, P., Harrington, R.A. et al. Available from: http://www.informas.org/bia-obesity/#BIAObesity%7C0. RH and MR contributed to the study design and manuscript preparation. For specific design elements of each tax (magnitude, type of tax and targeted products), see Fig. Long-time campaigners rejoiced at the news as former chancellor George Osborne declared the government was committed to tackling rising rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In order to better differentiate between the impact of changes in the sugar content of products and changes in purchasing behaviours, we repeated the analysis but kept the sugar content at 2015 levels. Some companies reformulated all products, while others chose to maintain the sugar content of key brands. Volume sales for Red Bull and Innocent increased with little change in the mean sugar content of their products, leading to increases in the volume sales of sugars for these two companies. 4). Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/soft-drinks-industry-levy/soft-drinks-industry-levy. high- and mid-sugar products) decreased from 63 to 44%, while the proportion increased for low-sugar products from 16 to 28%. The sales-weighted mean sugar content of carbonates, the category with the largest volume sales, fell by 29%. The sugar tax came into force on April 6, 2018, after hopes of a U-turn by PM Theresa May were dashed. Sugar beet is grown in East Anglia and the East Midlands. Home | Change4Life. Expert comment on new sugar tax announced in the Budget, Taxing sweet snacks may bring even greater health benefits than taxing sugar-sweetened drinks, Sugar, tobacco, and alcohol taxes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Anti-slavery and human trafficking statement. Below we summarize each of these actions. The UK’s sugar tax has had minimal impact on consumer behaviour since coming into effect in April, data from insight agency Nielsen has shown. Using a novel method that links nutrient composition data and volume sales of soft drinks, we have analysed how shifts in consumer demand and changes made by individual soft drink companies have impacted on the total volume and per capita volume sugar sales from soft drinks. The product-level nutrient composition data of individual soft drinks were provided by Brand View, a private analytics company that collects product information, including nutrient composition data, by scraping from websites of the three leading UK retailers: Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco. An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Springer Nature. It includes taxation on sugar … S1). Its coverage includes supermarkets, convenience stores, markets, vending machines, restaurants and fast food outlets. Officially called the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), the tax puts a charge of 24p on drinks containing 8g of sugar per 100ml and 18p a litre on those with 5-8g of sugar per 100ml, directly payable by manufacturers to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). All rights reserved. For example, the company Britvic manufactures a number of different brands, including Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Lipton Ice Tea and Robinsons. We show that six of the top ten soft drinks companies have reformulated more than 50% of SDIL-eligible products by 2018. The levy applies to drinks containing more than 5g of sugar per 100ml, but not to … The current expectation is that the UK sugar tax will bring in £275 million each year. This rose to 57 companies and 199 brands in 2018. For these brands, the nutrient composition data were sourced online from the brand website in early 2019, and this data was used for all four years. The challenge to the food industry to reformulate their products and the introduction of the tax have been accompanied by a large public awareness campaign, particularly as part of an initiative called Change4Life [6] as well as increased attention to sugar-related harm in the mass media [7]. The mean sugar content of the high- and mid-sugar drinks remained unchanged, but for the low-sugar category, the mean sugar content rose from 0.9 g/100 ml (0.5–3.2 g/100 ml) to 4.2 g/100 ml (0.9–4.7 g/100 ml). 2013;92:22–6. The report was well received by sugar tax campaigners such as Action on Sugar and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. In the UK – where the sugar tax came into effect this year – Coca-Cola Zero Sugar volumes were up 50% over the quarter. This resulted in four companies - including the largest UK soft-drink firm - listed on the London Stock Exchange. The SDIL was introduced as part of the UK Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan to address childhood obesity, and related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease and help people reduce their daily sugar intake. Products with less than 5 g of sugar and not subject to the SDIL were split into two discrete groups: “low-sugar” if they contained 0.1–5 g/100 ml sugar and “zero-sugar” if they contained < 0.1 g/100 ml sugar. Beverage Daily: UK Sugar Tax: Historic sales shift to sugar-free (May 21st) Food Active: Deliveroo dishes out junk food deals to the obese – Food Active response (May 20th) The Daily Mail: The so-called healthy smoothies that contain EIGHT TIMES more sugar than a Krispy Kreme doughnut (AoS … Hungary accompanied their junk food tax with a nationwide healthy eating campaign and changes to school meals. volume 18, Article number: 20 (2020) The data that support the findings of this study are available from Euromonitor International and Brand View, but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under licence for the current study, and so are not publicly available. It’s too early to draw any conclusions about the impact of the sugar tax on patterns of obesity in the UK, but if the tax continues to have its intended effect then the benefits could be very significant. PS, RAH and MR are co-applicants on an NIHR-funded evaluation of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy (16/130/01). Our sustainability framework is about setting … For example, the 2018 volume sales data for the brand Lipton were matched with the mean nutrient information collected from five individual products with different flavours and/or sizes. I2017SRCTN18042742: Evaluation of the health impacts of the UK Treasury Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL). In March 2016 the government announced that a tax on sugary soft drinks would be introduced in the UK from 2018. BMC Med 18, 20 (2020). 1). Patterns and trends of beverage consumption among children and adults in Great Britain, 1986-2009. A new report has called on the government to use hundreds of millions of pounds of “unaccounted” sugar levy money to help … We have now published our first analysis of progress under the sugar reduction programme, assessing how far the food industry has gone towards achievement of the 5% reduction in the first year (by August 2017). BMC Medicine 100% juices, has increased (although the total volume has declined by 7%). This analysis provides strong evidence of reductions in the sugar content of soft drinks, together with the changes in product portfolios and consumer purchasing patterns which have led to a substantial reduction in the sales of sugar in soft drinks. A sugary drink tax, soda tax, or sweetened beverage tax (SBT) is a tax or surcharge (food-related fiscal policy) designed to reduce consumption of drinks with added sugar.Drinks covered under a soda tax often include carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks and energy drinks. All authors are part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The tax rate is 18p per litre for soft drinks with 5-8g of sugar per 100ml and 24p per litre for soft drinks with 8g or more sugar per litre. Setting Simulated scenario based on National Diet and Nutrition Survey waves 5 and 6, England. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Two such projects, the Access to Nutrition Index [12] and INFORMAS (International Network for Food, Obesity/NCD related Research, Monitoring and Action Support) Business Impact Assessment on Obesity tool [13], have used sales data from Euromonitor to estimate a “healthfulness score” for company’s portfolios using nutrient profiling. Once adjusted for changes in the population size and expressed in per capita terms, the volume sales of soft drinks rose by 5%, from 351 ml per person per day to 367 ml per person per day. The total volume of sugars sold by top ten UK soft drink companies, 2015 and 2018. Design Modelling study. Pechey R, Jebb SA, Kelly MP, Almiron-Roig E, Conde S, Nakamura R, et al. Self-efficacy and liking of SSBs were significantly associated with a reported … We aimed to assess the sugar content of soft drinks, both at the aggregate category and company level. This study shows a 30% reduction in the sales of sugar from soft drinks in the last 4 years, equivalent to 4.6 g per capita per day. This provides novel insights into how both consumer demand for soft drinks and individual companies have responded to sugar reduction policies and the broader debate about sugar and soft drinks in the UK, and provides proof-of-concept for a method that could be used to monitor sugar reduction in other key food categories. The SDIL was introduced as part of the UK Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan to address childhood obesity, and related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease and help people reduce their daily sugar intake. Article  There was a decrease in the total volume sales of sugars for eight of the top ten companies (defined by their total contribution to total volume sales of sugars) (Fig. These data were scraped on the same date (13 December) for four consecutive years (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). Across all these product categories put together, sugar consumption decreased by 3.3% per person in Great Britain between 2015 and 2018. Cookies policy. This suggests that the majority of the reduction in sugar sales was due to reformulation. In 2015, eight of the top ten companies manufactured high- and mid-sugar products that are targeted by the SDIL, and two companies—Innocent and Tropicana—sold only exempt products (Fig. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011295. CAS  Overall, volume sales have increased while the sugar content has declined, which highlights the opportunity for improvements in public health to be consistent with successful business practices—although we recognise that volume sales are only one indicator of a company’s success. A brand was defined as a set of products that have the same name and are manufactured by one company. Very similar trends were found, when expressed per capita per day, with the volume of sugars sold from soft drinks falling from 15.5 g per person per day in 2015 to 10.8 g in 2018, a reduction of 30% (Table 3). BMJ Open. “This research provides an important foundation for more research into the value of fiscal interventions aiming at improving public health.”, Professor Martin White, Professor of Population Health Research in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge and Chief Investigator for the SDIL Evaluation, said: “On the day of the announcement of the SDIL, a number of soft drinks companies issued stark warnings to the news media about the anticipated negative impacts of the levy on their businesses, so we wanted to see whether these were borne out by the data. PS is funded by a BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship (FS/15/34/31656). They also noted that the soft drinks companies’ stock prices increased over the following two years to the end of the study. With this in mind, the UK’s decision to roll out taxes of up to 24 pence on certain drinks looks like the right one. This means that no historical change could be measured for these brands, other than changes in sales levels. Number of individual soft drink products by category, 2015-2018. Schools are to get £415 million from the soft drinks industry levy to help pupils benefit from healthier, more active lifestyles, Justine Greening has announced.. A Kruskal-Wallis test was used to test for differences between the sales-weighted mean sugar contents of each soft drink category—here, we weighted the analysis so that each brand had influence proportional to total sales, but the sum of the units of analysis was equal to the number of brands. 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To estimate the sales-weighted mean sugar content of soft drinks in the UK market and to calculate the total amount of sugars sold by each company, we matched the Euromonitor brand-level data with the Brand View product-level data. Products that are subject to the SDIL and contain > 8 g/100 ml sugar were categorised as “high-sugar” and those between 5 and 8 g/100 ml as “mid-sugar”. Leading UK soft drinks companies continued to experience positive growth in their share prices during the implementation of the UK Government’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), despite widespread industry fears the tax would harm their businesses, according to a … Br J Nutr. No comments . Available from: https://www.accesstonutrition.org/about-index, INFORMAS. The consumption of free sugars in the UK is more than double the guideline intake for adults and close to triple for children, with soft drinks representing a significant proportion. Once adjusted for sales, the weighted mean sugar content of all soft drinks decreased significantly from 4.4 g/100 ml (IQR, 0.0–9.2 g/100 ml) to 2.9 g/100 ml (0.0–4.3 g/100 ml), an overall reduction of 34% (Table 5). Following a report from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition which recommended a lower target of 5% dietary energy from free sugars [3], the UK Government challenged the food industry to reduce the sugar content of foods by 20% by 2020 [4]. OUR APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY. SACN: Carbohydrates and Health. Hashem KM, He FJ, Jenner KH, MacGregor GA. Cross-sectional survey of the amount of free sugars and calories in carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages on sale in the UK. The total volume sales of bottled water and products exempt from the SDIL rose by 23%. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1477-4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1477-4. UK sugar tax 2020. Available from: www.gov.uk/phe, HM Revenue & Customs. Based on population and diet survey data, this … No results could be found for your search. With this in mind, the UK’s decision to roll out taxes of up to 24 pence on certain drinks looks like the right one. PLoS One. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. The proportion of sugars sold from products included in the SDIL (i.e. It’s essential that more research is done on the wider impact of large-scale policies like this if we are to make the major advances in public health we so urgently need.”, C. Law, L. Cornelsen, J. Adams, T. Penney, H. Rutter, M. White, R. Smith. ... UK smoking rates falling fast. In April 2018, the United Kingdom introduced a levy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), with 2 bands of taxation: beverages containing 5–8 g added sugar/100 mL are taxed at 18 p/L and those with ≥8 g at 24 p/L ( 1 ). The total volume sales of soft drinks that are subject to the SDIL (i.e. Business News. Just two weeks later a University of Cambridge study highlighted why a sugar tax could be so beneficial. Each of the products was categorised according to their sugar content in relation to the tax payable under the SDIL. Action by the soft drinks industry to reduce sugar in products and change their product portfolios, coupled with changes in consumer purchasing, has led to a significant reduction in the total volume and per capita sales of sugars sold in soft drinks in the UK. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Socioeconomic differences in purchases of more vs. less healthy foods and beverages: analysis of over 25,000 British households in 2010. The research found that, although companies studied in the research experienced negative stock market returns on the day the tax was announced, these companies’ returns had ‘bounced back’ over the following four days. The analysis of stock market returns of soft-drinks companies registered on the London Stock Exchange, was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with researchers from the University of Cambridge, and Exeter and Bath Universities, and funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Euromonitor classifies a number of small and local brands under the umbrella of “others”, and these products, representing 21% of the total volume sales of soft drinks, were excluded from all analysis. Below we summarize each of these actions. However, as with other possible data sources [11], there are limitations. The whole point of it was to get manufacturers to change the ingredients of the product.’ – Camilla Cavendish, author of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, as former head of policy under David Cameron. Article  Sugar taxes not ruled out as government says 'further action' will be taken if no results seen By Laura Donnelly 27 Jul 2020, 3:15pm We are taking action to get the nation's health back on track Milk and milk-based drinks, hot drinks and drinks containing alcohol were excluded. It is lower than the government’s estimate of £520 million of tax revenue from the levy in 2018/19. 2018 [cited 2018 Apr 16]. Norway has had a tax on added sugar since 1922. “While the stock market initially perceived the SDIL announcement as detrimental to the soft drink companies, the ‘bounce back’ of abnormal stock returns suggests that negative financial impact might not be as substantial as claimed by industry in the news media. Passport soft drinks: Euromonitor International. UK businesses claim sugar tax will result in job losses and high. Google Scholar, Euromonitor International. An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy. But it decided to hike this tax by an enormous 83% at the start of 2018, with products like sweets and chocolates now taxed at $4.69 per kilo. By pairing composition data with sales data, we were able to capture not just what is available, but what is sold, and the net impact on total sugar sales. here, the tax rate is high (almost double the average UK rate), it applies to soft drinks containing sugar and artificial sweeteners, and it is fully passed through to prices. The authors have no control over the data collection process and there is limited transparency in the methods of data collection or the reliability of the sources [11]. 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