Question follow-through · 8778
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help tackle tobacco duty avoidance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help tackle tobacco duty avoidance.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
The new joint HMRC and Border Force strategy to tackle illicit tobacco was published earlier this year, ‘Stubbing out the problem’. The strategy:targets the demand for illicit trade (the consumers that criminals seek to exploit) as well as the supply (the...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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