Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal importations of shisha tobacco were capture by the UK Border Force in each of the last three calendar years.

Border Force does not routinely publish this level of data on the specific type of tobacco seized at the border.

Seizures relating to products related to the Tax revenue that is protected through detecting goods where excise duty has not been declared, including Tobacco seizures are published quarterly on the.gov.uk website. The latest information can be found at:

Border Force Transparency Data August 2020