Question follow-through · 17992
Tobacco: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential increase in illegal tobacco sales as a consequence of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential increase in illegal tobacco sales as a consequence of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
Evidence shows that when we have previously introduced targeted tobacco control measures, they have had a positive impact on tackling the problems of illicit tobacco. Consumption of illicit cigarettes has gone from 15 billion cigarettes in 2000/2001 to 1....
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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