§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many retailers in England and Wales were prosecuted under section 7 of the Children and 435W Young Persons Act 1933 for selling tobacco to children under the age of 16 years during each of the past 10 years for which figures are available; and how many of these resulted in conviction.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information available is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—offence classification 144 in table 1(a) of the volume for 1979, Cmnd. 8098; information on the circumstances of these offences is not collected centrally.