Sep. 17 2024
Source Page: Health briefing packs ahead of Scottish Parliament health committee: FOI releaseFound: • There is a number of reasons for the decrease, including diversion onto the illicit market, patterns
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking at a retail level to tackle the illicit tobacco trade.
Answered by James Murray - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
HMRC works closely with local authorities to help tackle illicit tobacco trade at a retail level.
In January 2021 HMRC and National Trading Standards launched Operation CeCe. This joint initiative builds on decades of partnership working with local Trading Standards Officers.
HMRC funds Operation CeCe with the money being allocated by National Trading Standards to local authority Trading Standards. This supports them to undertake enforcement activity including the sharing of information and intelligence to target and seize illegal tobacco, disruption of the illicit tobacco market and prevention of fraud in their area.
In its first two years of operation more than 28 million cigarettes and nearly 8 tonnes of illicit hand rolling-tobacco were seized.
In July 2023 new powers were given to Trading Standards to make referrals to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) where they find evidence of tobacco products that do not comply with the UK Tobacco Track and Trace System.
In January 2024, HMRC published a new Illicit Tobacco Strategy ‘Stubbing out the problem’. The Strategy sets out how HMRC intends to build on the success of Operation CeCe by increasing the level of funding available to Trading Standards.
Sep. 16 2024
Source Page: Joint statement between UK and Italy: 16 September 2024Found: enhance cooperation on asset freezing and confiscation, looking to develop a joint taskforce on combating illicit
Sep. 16 2024
Source Page: Prime Minister confirms nearly half a billion pounds of Italian investment into the UK to support jobs and drive growthFound: counterpart, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to strengthen the UK-Italy partnership across migration, trade
Sep. 14 2024
Source Page: Joint Statement: UK-U.S. Strategic Dialogue September 2024Found: development of some of the most advanced capabilities in the world – revolutionising AUKUS partners’ defence trade
Sep. 13 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 6 June 2024 to 9 September 2024Found: ) • Home shopper • Internet shopper (retail trade) • Order picker (retail trade) • Porter (
Sep. 13 2024
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 16 May 2024 to 5 June 2024Found: ) • Home shopper • Internet shopper (retail trade) • Order picker (retail trade) • Porter (retail
Found: principle of non- intervention does not itself prohibit a state from ceasing trade or imposing trade
Sep. 12 2024
Source Page: United Kingdom’s response to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ List of Issues ReportFound: policies adopted in response to the coronavirus pandemic ..................... 13 Tax avoidance and illicit
Sep. 12 2024
Source Page: Six-monthly report on Hong Kong: January to June 2024Found: ...... ................................ ................................ ..................... 32 Trade