The sugar tax seems to be financially encouraging people to increase their sugar intake not decrease it.
Yes the voke 500ml is now £1.75 discouraging alot of children buying it with their pocket money, but look down the main aisle and a 1.75l bottle is only £1.75 on offer so instead people are buying nearly 4 times as much sugar as it costs the same.
Also it doesnt seem to have effected the own brand drinks with full fat cola still being 50p for 2l in Tesco and 2l of own brand not value water being around the same.
To really encourage everyone to cut down on sugar surely it makes more sense to cut tax on nutritionally better food and drinks. So that a bag of apples costs less than a bag of crisps. A bottle of water costs far less than a can of coke.
Healthy balanced eating is what we want for our children and ourselves but it is becoming financially harder and harder to make those choices.