Question follow-through · 12767
Tobacco: Seized Articles
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many seizures led to the total volume of cigarettes seized inland by HMRC in each year between 2019-20 and 2024-25; and how many inland seizures took place in retail settings in each of those years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many seizures led to the total volume of cigarettes seized inland by HMRC in each year between 2019-20 and 2024-25; and how many inland seizures took place in retail settings in each of those years.
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2026
Answer published
HMRC does not hold fully assured data for the number of HMRC inland seizures, and data is not broken down by seizure location
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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