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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

May. 09 2024

Source Page: Call for Proposals: UKISF Pacific Programme
Document: UK WPS National Action Plan (PDF, 8.5MB) (PDF)

Found: Broad inclusion of civil society actors, such as women’s organisations and trade unions, in a peace

Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Thu 09 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) some libertarian Conservative MPs have a philosophical objection to this legislation—the Business and Trade - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) introduced the track and trace system, packaging is useful in monitoring the flow and patterns in the trade - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) It is doubly concerning when we think about the illicit vapes that end up on British shelves. - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) What more can the Minister do about the growing illicit market in vapes? - Speech Link
5: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) With illicit vapes, it is an entirely different issue. I can point the hon. Lady to the evidence. - Speech Link

Bill Documents
9 May 2024 - Written evidence
Written evidence submitted by Dr Matthew Rimmer, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland (TVB39)
Tobacco and Vapes Bill 2023-24

Found: agreements under the World Trade Organization – including the TRIPS Agreement , the TBT Agreement

Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Thu 09 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) That increased investment will boost enforcement surrounding the sale of illicit tobacco and illicit - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) That would ensure that the illicit trade is suppressed and does not rear its ugly head and that it is - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) It conducts a range of illicit vape enforcement activities, including data collection and analysis of - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Secondly, as we heard in evidence, there is the matter of illicit tobacco, and often vapes too, being - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

May. 08 2024

Source Page: Alkyl nitrites: ACMD exemption consideration
Document: (PDF)

Found: Instead, users turn to illicit sources, placing them at risk of harms related to an illicit and unregulated

Select Committee
Henry Jackson Society
 IUD0008 - Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence

Written Evidence May. 08 2024

Inquiry: Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Relations and Defence Committee

Found: Non-State Actors The last decade the world has experienced a particular increase in militarisation and illicit

Commons Chamber
Russia - Wed 08 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Russian-owned properties in the UK, including Seacox House, a Russia-owned property in Sussex, and the trade - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) The Home Secretary has been too slow to rid the UK of illicit finance. - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
Countering Iran’s Hostile Activities - Wed 08 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) providing it with the wherewithal to buy many of the weapons that it needs.Staggeringly, the total value of trade - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) terror groups—they can move money around the world to where it needs to be—yet those banks continue to trade - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) I took care of the sanctions regime in the Department for Business and Trade, and I know that we had - Speech Link

Written Question
Tobacco: Smuggling
Wednesday 8th May 2024

Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking with local authorities to help tackle the illicit tobacco trade.

Answered by Gareth Davies - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

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.

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 January this year, 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 so that it can have an even greater impact in tackling the illicit tobacco trade.

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

May. 02 2024

Source Page: MLA guidelines for authorities outside of the UK
Document: (PDF)

Found: Assistance in Criminal Matters 1959 , and its two additional protocols , supplemented by the EU-UK Trade