Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of tobacco taxes rises on the purchase of non-UK duty paid tobacco in each of the last five years.
Estimates of the value and volume of product in the illicit tobacco market for the last five years, up to 2016-17 are published below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tobacco-tax-gap-estimates