As the Minister would accept, there is an elasticity of demand for any product—namely a relationship between the price and the demand. Will she focus a few comments on why precisely she is resisting simply putting up the price of sugar through a tax? I appreciate what she said about my hon. Friend the Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn), but if no reasons are being given, he probably cannot understand why. If there is no rational reason for doing so, he is assuming it is because of the lobbyists.
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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