Cigarette Sales (Prosecutions)

HC Deb 16 January 1984 vol 52 cc48-50W

Mr. Foulkes

asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland how many prosecutions for selling cigarettes to children have there been in each of the past five years by each fiscal's area in Scotland.

The Solicitor-General for Scotland

Statistics of prosecution for contravention of section 18 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 are not available. I understand, however, that there have been few such prosecutions.