Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the amount of revenue lost by the Exchequer due to the sale of illicit tobacco in the UK in the last year for which figures are available.

Estimates of the Tobacco illicit market share for years up to 2015-16 are published online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tobacco-tax-gap-estimates

Estimates for 2016-17 will be published at 9:30am on 26^th October 2017.