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		Written answer
	answer has question	z4WgqhBW
	answer has answering person	Neil John O'Brien
	answer text	<p>No assessment has been made. History shows whenever we introduce new tobacco control legislation and regulations, illicit tobacco has decreased, due to strong enforcement. Consumption of illegal tobacco has gone from 17 billion cigarettes in 2000/1 to three billion cigarettes in 2022/23.</p><p>As part of the smokefree generation announcement on 4 October 2023, the Government is also providing £30 million additional funding per year to support enforcement agencies such as trading standards, Border Force, and HM Revenue & Customs.</p>
	answer given date	2023-10-26
	answer has answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	written answer has answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has written answer	km87IwBV
Department of Health and Social Care	answering body has answer	km87IwBV
z4WgqhBW	question has answer	km87IwBV
Neil John O'Brien	answering person has answer	km87IwBV