Question follow-through · 19051

Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what a) amount and b) percentage of Vape Products Duty has been spent to date on tackling rogue traders of vapes and cigarettes.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
15 Jul 2026
Target answer date
1 Sept 2026
Answer
4 Sept 2026 · 51 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what a) amount and b) percentage of Vape Products Duty has been spent to date on tackling rogue traders of vapes and cigarettes.

  2. 1 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    Vaping Products Duty (VPD) will come into effect on 1 October 2026. As it has not yet come into force, no amount of VPD revenue has been spent to date.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Electronic Cigarettes: Excise Duties

16 Jul 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ring-fencing revenue from the Vape Duty for smoking cessation support, including the Swap to Stop scheme and resourcing for Trading Standards enforcement.