Evaluation of the health impacts of the UK Treasury Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL)

Conditions

The main focus of this work is the prevention of obesity and risk of chronic non-communicable diseases through reduction of sugar-sweetened soft drink, and therefore sugar, consumption in the population. Consumption of SSBs is independently associated with total energy intake and risk of dental caries, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and heart. For example, adults who consume one or more sugary drinks per day double their risk of diabetes and raise their risk of CHD by 23% compared to t

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Interventions

In 2016 the Chancellor announced a tiered soft drinks industry levy (SDIL) on industries importing or selling sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) in the UK with the explicit intention of reducing consump

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Interviews with professionals: 1. A member of an identified stakeholder group (academic, civil society, public health professional, government, industry) 2. A professional interest in the soft drinks industry levy 3. A professional interest in the relationship between sugar and health Focus groups with the public: A member of the public

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Soft drink market diversity, formulation and price is measured using number of products, mean sugar concentration and price from a bespoke dataset derived from online supermarkets 2. Purchasing of SSBs, other drinks, confectionery & toiletries measured using household purchase data from Kantar World Panel 3. Consumption of SSBs, other drinks, confectionery & sugar as a whole measured using consumption recorded in diet diaries from the National Diet Nutrition Survey 4. Dental caries measured by rate of finished admission episodes for dental procedures (F08-17 & F63) with a primary diagnosis of dental caries (ICD-10 K02) per 100,000 population per calendar month Hospital Episode Statistics 5. Childhood obesity measured by mean BMI z-score from the National Child Measurement Programme All outcomes will be assessed in the following time periods: Time period 1: Prior to the announcement of the SDIL retrospectively using data (from April 2014 to March 2016) Time period 2: following the chancellor’s announcement of the SDIL in March 2016 up to confirmation of legislation for the SDIL (May 2017), and following the confirmation of SDIL legislation (May 2017) up to implementation of the SDIL (anticipated April 2018) Time period 3: following implementation of the SDIL (anticipated April 2018) up to 24 months later using prospective data collection	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Soft drink market diversity, formulation and price is measured using number of products, mean sugar concentration and price from a bespoke dataset derived from online supermarkets 2. Purchasing of SSBs, other drinks, confectionery & toiletries measured using household purchase data from Kantar World Panel 3. Consumption of SSBs, other drinks, confectionery & sugar as a whole measured using consumption recorded in diet diaries from the National Diet Nutrition Survey 4. Dental caries measured by rate of finished admission episodes for dental procedures (F08-17 & F63) with a primary diagnosis of dental caries (ICD-10 K02) per 100,000 population per calendar month Hospital Episode Statistics 5. Childhood obesity measured by mean BMI z-score from the National Child Measurement Programme All outcomes will be assessed in the following time periods: Time period 1: Prior to the announcement of the SDIL retrospectively using data (from April 2014 to March 2016) Time period 2: following the chancellor’s announcement of the SDIL in March 2016 up to confirmation of legislation for the SDIL (May 2017), and following the confirmation of SDIL legislation (May 2017) up to implementation of the SDIL (anticipated April 2018) Time period 3: following implementation of the SDIL (anticipated April 2018) up to 24 months later using prospective data collection

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Not provided at time of registration	—

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed