Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether HMRC are undertaking any other pilots on product authentication other than that with the tobacco industry's Codentify system; and whether they plan to pilot other systems.

HMRC is piloting the Codentify system, a product authentication tool that is currently used on tobacco packaging and could help tackle the illicit tobacco market.

HMRC are not piloting any other product authentication systems and currently have no plans to do so.