Tobacco: Smuggling
(asked on 21st June 2017) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of illegal cigarettes sold in the UK in each of the last 10 years.
This question was answered on 26th June 2017
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) estimate the volume of illicit cigarettes consumed in the UK. This information is available in the tobacco tax gap tables at table 1.2 at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tobacco-tax-gap-estimates