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Tobacco: Smuggling

Commons · Question 52310 · Tabled 14 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 22 May 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seizures of (a) cigarettes, (b) hand rolling tobacco and (c) other tobacco products have been made by Border Force at (i) seaports, (ii) airports and (iii) postal services, in each of the las

Answer

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 22 May 2025

The below statistics from Border Force’s transparency data outline the number of cigarettes and weight of tobacco seized in each of the last five years, but are not broken down by the location where they were seized.2020 - 509,032,596 Cigarette sticks, 11...