Written Question·Home Office·UIN 107094

Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Smuggling

Tabled: 20 January 2026
Answered: 28 January 2026

Question

James Cartlidge

Conservative — South Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending to county councils the provisions of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 on issuing closure notices in cases of ill

Answer

Sarah Jones
The closure power, under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, enables police or local councils - including county councils where there is no district council - to close premises quickly which are being used to commit nuisance or disorde...
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