Table 1.
Mean volume of, and amount of sugar in, purchased drinks and confectionery per household per week in relation to the UK soft drinks industry levy, March 2014 to March 2019 (weighted)
| Mean (SD) volume (mL) per household/week | Mean (SD) amount of sugar (g) per household/week | |||||
| Preannouncement: March 2014–March 2016 | Postannouncement: March 2016–March 2018 | Post implementation: April 2018–March 2019 | Preannouncement: March 2014–March 2016 | Post announcement: March 2016–March 2018 | Post implementation: April 2018–March 2019 | |
| Levy liable drinks (sugar/100 mL) | ||||||
| High tier (≥8 g) | 880 (128) | 680 (136) | 363 (76) | 98 (14) | 76 (15) | 40 (9) |
| Low tier (≥5 g to <8 g | 155 (32) | 147 (37) | 75 (32) | 10 (2) | 10 (2) | 5 (2) |
| No levy (<5 g) | 1811 (169) | 1876 (216) | 2448 (321) | 12 (2) | 12 (3) | 25 (5) |
| >0 g to<5 g | 785 (78) | 768 (92) | 989 (139) | 12(2) | 12(3) | 25(5) |
| 0 g | 1027 (104) | 1108 (132) | 1459 (190) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Bottled water | 591 (72) | 714 (90) | 786 (138) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Levy exempt drinks | ||||||
| Alcoholic drinks* | 1874 (380) | 1872 (456) | 1948 (467) | . | . | . |
| Milk and milk based drinks† | 3546 (137) | 3540 (155) | 3542 (148) | 172 (7) | 172 (8) | 170 (7) |
| Fruit juices with no added sugar | 516 (29) | 502 (44) | 520 (47) | 51 (3) | 49 (4) | 50 (5) |
| Drinks sold as powders (g) | 95 (12) | 88 (11) | 90 (11) | 21 (3) | 19 (3) | 18 (3) |
| Other categories | ||||||
| Confectionery (g) | 308 (91) | 303 (92) | 318 (100) | 173 (51) | 170 (52) | 178 (57) |
| Toiletries | 123 (8) | 120 (8) | 121 (9) | . | . | . |
| All soft drinks combined (ie, excluding alcohol) | 7595 (295) | 7547 (466) | 7826 (540) | 364 (17) | 337 (24) | 307 (19) |
*Sugar from alcoholic drinks is not included here as many alcoholic drinks contain sugar but the product label does not provide the amount.
†Milk comprises drinks in the following categories: semi-skimmed; specific low fat % milk (eg, 1% fat milk); whole milk; buttermilk; modified milk; other milk; other non-cows milk; rice drink; soya milk. Skimmed milk is excluded from all analysis in this paper due to missing data.