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(asked on 25th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 97688, how many times enforcement action for non-compliance with the requirements of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 has taken place.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 7th December 2020

Enforcement of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations (TRPR) 2016 is carried out by local trading standards. The Department will be undertaking a post implementation review of TRPR shortly.

The Department has funded the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) to provide annual tobacco control surveys on trading standards activities relating to tobacco control legislation enforcement. The latest CTSI survey for 2019-20 is available at the following link:

https://www.tradingstandards.uk/media/documents/news--policy/tobacco-control/ctsi-tobacco-report-2019-20.pdf

It is too early to assess the level of compliance with the ban on menthol cigarettes which was introduced in May this year.

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