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Tax On Sugary Drinks

EDM number 1239 in 2012-13, proposed by Keith Vaz on 22/03/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Food, Health education and preventive medicine, Manufacturing industries and Taxation.

That this House is alarmed at research presented at the American Heart Association conference that suggests sugar-sweetened drinks may be associated with 180,000 deaths around the world each year; notes that data collected as part of the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases Study links 133,000 diabetes deaths, 44,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and 6,000 cancer deaths to the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages; further notes that 78 per cent of these deaths were due to over-consumption of sugary drinks in low and middle-income countries rather than high-income countries; and urges the Government to take immediate action to lessen these unnecessary deaths in the UK by introducing legislation to tax sugar-sweetened beverages.

This motion has been signed by a total of 14 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Keith Vaz22/03/2013Leicester EastLabourProposed
Kelvin Hopkins25/03/2013Luton NorthLabourSeconded
John McDonnell25/03/2013Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan25/03/2013FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
George Galloway25/03/2013Bradford WestRespectSeconded
Jim Shannon26/03/2013StrangfordDUPSeconded
Alan Meale26/03/2013MansfieldLabourSigned
Martin Caton26/03/2013GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn26/03/2013Islington NorthLabourSigned
Joan Walley26/03/2013Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Mary Glindon26/03/2013North TynesideLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie10/04/2013South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Mike Hancock10/04/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams10/04/2013CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned

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