| Heading: |
Tobacco: Sales |
| Question ID: |
1747142 |
| UIN: |
17992 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5169 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Charlie Dewhirst
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| Asking Member handle: |
charliedewhirst
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@charliedewhirst
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential increase in illegal tobacco sales as a consequence of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-11 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
Evidence shows that when we have previously introduced targeted tobacco control measures, they have had a positive impact on tackling the problems of illicit tobacco. Consumption of illicit cigarettes has gone from 15 billion cigarettes in 2000/2001 to 1.... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |