§ Lord Dubsasked Her Majesty's Government:
What proportion of (a) hard drugs and (b) soft drugs, by estimated value and volume, seized at or near UK ports of entry in each of the last 3 years was being brought in from another EU country.
§ Lord Mackay of ArdbrecknishThe table below shows the proportion by weight of Customs drugs seizures recorded as being brought in from another EU country. The proportion by value is the same.
and that repayments of tax were made to 23,000 individuals in 1994–95. I regret that information for earlier years cannot be collated without disproportionate cost. Many individuals have initial assessments on more than one type of income, and had more than one repayment in a year, and such duplications are not readily eliminated from the available data.
- 1990–91: 25,700
- 1991–92: 25,600
- 1992–93: 7,000
- 1993–94: 1,900
- 1994–95: 2,600