Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 21696

Tobacco: Smuggling

Tabled: 3 January 2025
Answered: 8 January 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales on trends in the level of (a) counterfeit cigarettes and (b) contraband cigarettes b

Answer

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Bridlington and The Wolds on 11 December 2024 to Question UIN 17992.