Soft Drinks Industry Levy
Case reference FOI2021/00120
Published 17 November 2021
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act please can you tell me whether you received any funding from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (sugar tax) in the financial years 2018/19, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021?
How much did the local authority receive in each financial year? Please include levy money that is provided through the Healthy Pupil Capital Fund, Primary PE and Sports Premium and the National School Breakfast Programme.
What was this money spent on in each financial year? Please give a breakdown including the details of the project (i.e. playing field renovation etc) and cost of the project.
Response
Q1 Please can you tell me whether you received any funding from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (sugar tax) in the financial years 2018/19, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021?
No funding from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy has been received in these financial years.
Q2 How much did the local authority receive in each financial year?
Please include levy money that is provided through the Healthy Pupil Capital Fund, Primary PE and Sports Premium and the National School Breakfast Programme.
The council did receive monies through the Primary PE and Sports Premium:
2018/19 - £1,043,253.00
2019/20 - £1,027,687.00
2020/21 - £1,012,038.00
No monies were received via the Healthy Pupil Capital Fund or the National School Breakfast Programme.
Q3 What was this money spent on in each financial year? Please give a breakdown including the details of the project (i.e playing field renovation etc) and cost of the project.
The monies through the Primary PE and Sports Premium were all distributed to primary schools as per the allocations on the gov.uk website. The council does not hold details of what the schools subsequently spent the money on. To obtain this information you will need to contact each school direct. The contact details for Herefordshire schools are available on the council's website https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/directory/18/school-directory
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