questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of a ban on the sale of energy drinks through vending machines on the vending and automated retail sector.
answerText: The Government has a commitment to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children under 16 years old. This has been subject to a consultation which we ran for 12-weeks from 3 September to 26 November 2025.The accompanying impact assessment publis...
heading: Energy Drinks: Vending Machines