§ Mr. EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions have resulted from fuel bootlegging in each of the last five years. [45410]
§ Mr. BoatengI have been asked to reply.
Customs central records do not differentiate between the type of fraud or smuggling involved in their successful prosecutions in the road fuel sector across the whole of the UK.
However, Customs do hold records centrally of the successful prosecutions for road fuel smuggling specifically in Northern Ireland and I provided these in answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Hull, North (Mr. McNamara) on 21 November 2001, Official Report, column 266W.