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Finance (No. 2) Bill

Proceeding contribution from Nigel Mills (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 April 2017. It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 2) Bill.

I agree with the hon. Lady about that. The products we should probably be targeting are those people think might be healthy but are not. I may buy a smoothie thinking that it contains lots of fruit so it must be good for me, but it, too, is high in calories. It is not a bad thing to consume that fruit; I need to have it as part of a balanced diet. Certain milk drinks are incredibly bad for people and may be worse than many soft drinks, but I am not entirely clear that the levy applies to those. If we had structured a tax that went on something high in sugar or high in calories, that may have been a way of getting to the outcome we were after.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
624 c586 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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