HC Deb 07 May 1980 vol 984 c119W
Mr. Dubs

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have been brought, in each of the last five years, against shopkeepers for selling cigarettes or tobacco products to young persons under 16 years.

Mr. Brittan

The information is published annually in " Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—offence classification 144 in table 1(a) of the volume for 1978, Cmnd. 7670. Information for 1979 is not yet available.