The hon. Lady will know that I put forward a sugar Bill supporting sugar being denominated in spoonfuls. Does she accept that if there were two pasta sauces that were clearly labelled—one with six teaspoonfuls and one with three—there would clearly be an incentive for consumers to pick the lower-sugar one and that manufacturers would compete to get sugar content down, rather than up, in order to get people to buy their products?
Sugary Drinks Tax
Proceeding contribution from
Geraint Davies
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 30 November 2015.
It occurred during Backbench debate
and
e-petition debate on Sugary Drinks Tax.
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2015-16
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