Question to the Home Office:

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 last five years.

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, 110,774.2kg Tobacco

2021 – 961,939,889 Cigarette sticks, 136,835.9kg Tobacco

2022 – 827,211,419 Cigarette sticks, 93,717.57kg Tobacco

2023 – 823,818,908 Cigarette sticks, 67,730.03kg Tobacco

2024 – 934,104,940 Cigarette sticks, 72,143.33kg Tobacco