Electronic Cigarettes: Excise Duties

(asked on 15th September 2026) - View Source
Questioner
Mike Wood Portrait
Mike Wood
(Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2026 to Question 21040 on Tobacco Tax Gap: Wastewater Analysis, for what reason the research was commissioned.

Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
This question was answered on 14th October 2026

The research was commissioned to assess whether wastewater analysis could provide a new source of data on tobacco and nicotine consumption, helping to strengthen HMRC’s understanding of the tobacco tax gap estimates.

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