Tobacco: Smuggling
(asked on 11th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of how many illegal cigarettes were smuggled into the UK in 2023.
Answered by
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 19th November 2024
The transparency data showing the total amount of illegal cigarettes seized by Border Force in 2023 is available at the following page:
Border Force Transparency 2023
Qty of Cigarettes (sticks)
Q1 156,104,848
Q2 197,641,347
Q3 259,625,932
Q4 210,205,139
Total 823,577,266