Question follow-through · 21204
Retail Trade: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ringfencing revenue raised from the retail licensing scheme to fund Trading Standards enforcement against illicit high street retailers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ringfencing revenue raised from the retail licensing scheme to fund Trading Standards enforcement against illicit high street retailers.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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10 Sept 2026
Answer published
We are carefully considering the responses to our October 2025 call for evidence on tobacco and vapes, including on the granting of licences, to inform our proposals for future consultation, and we will set out our plans in the normal way in due course.Th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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