§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has of the amount of tax the Government received from cigarettes sold illegally to people under age in the last financial year.
§ Sir John CopeEvidence on the consumption of cigarettes by children aged under 16 is provided by the survey "Smoking among secondary school children in 1990" carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. But we have no estimate of the proportion of total consumption that is met from cigarettes illegally sold to people under age as children also acquire cigarettes from parents and other sources. Nor do we have an estimate of the proportion of cigarettes illegally sold to children for consumption by parents or other adults.