Hungary will introduce a fat tax as of September 1 2011. From this date, Hungarian food manufacturers will have to pay a tax of 10 forint (€0.37) for foods bearing fat, sugar and salt at levels over a certain threshold. The Hungarian government says the tax will raise €70m per year – money which it says will offset public health costs of treating the consequences of high-fat,sugar and salt diets.

Defra’s Centre of Expertise on Influencing Behaviours has published a Framework for Sustainable Lifestyles, a slide set as a tool to help develop effective approaches to encourage more sustainable lifestyles. This also enables Government improve the support given to organisations supporting sustainable lifestyles.The set builds on the 2008 Framework for Pro-environmental Behaviours and provides key insights from Defra's understanding of the evidence on people's behaviour. The Framework covers: