Question follow-through · 67830
Tobacco: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 60427 on Tobacco: Excise Duties, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of falling cigarette and hand rolling tobacco receipts on the
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2025 to Question 60427 on Tobacco: Excise Duties, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of falling cigarette and hand rolling tobacco receipts on the
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jul 2025
Answer published
HMRC recently published an updated version of their Measuring Tax Gaps publication which now includes tax gap estimates up to 2023/24. The illicit market volume for cigarettes is shown in Table 3.13 and the total consumption volume is shown in Table 3.12....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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