HC Deb 23 January 2002 vol 378 c910W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the revenue lost due to excise evasion on(a) hand-rolling tobacco and (b) cigarettes since the abolition of European fiscal frontiers; and how much of this revenue has been recovered. [24801]

Mr. Boateng

Relevant information concerning estimates of fraud can be found in the Customs and Excise technical paper "Measuring Indirect Tax Fraud", published on 27 November 2001, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.