Expenditure & Profit: Confectionery and sugar sweetened beverage

Reference: 25-26090

Date response sent: 28/05/2025

Details of enquiry

This is part of a batch request to 101 NHS authorities in England.

For the years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025:

1. How much did your authority spend on confectionery (including chocolate, crisps, sweets, cakes, etc) and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) for resale to patients, staff, and the public?
2. What was the approximate percentage mark up for the items referred to in question 1?
3. How much profit did your authority make from the sale of items referred to in question 1?

Response sent

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist NHS mental health trust for outpatients with a focus on training and education as well as providing a full range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people, and adults. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services

The Trust confirms that it does not hold the data you seek on the purchase, and sale of confectionery items bought on our premises, and confirms that it does not make any profit from the sale of such items

Café services within our Tavistock Centre are provided for students and staff by an independent company which manages the  purchase and sale of its food, confectionary and beverages.

There is also one vending machine on site, which is owned, provided and managed by a 3rd party supplier, who manage their own purchase and sale of confectionery items for this machine.