Electronic Cigarettes: Staffordshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of illegal vaping products that were sold in Staffordshire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
Data collection and analysis to understand the scale of illegal vaping products across the country is part of the work led by National Trading Standards, to enhance illicit vape enforcement. This work, funded through a £3 million grant across two years from the Department, has identified that the Central England Trading Standards Authorities (CEnTSA) seized 129,244 illicit vapes from 2022 to 2023. The CEnTSA brings together 14 Local Authority Trading Standards services across the West Midlands, including Staffordshire County Council Trading Standards. Data for Staffordshire alone and data prior to 2022/23 is not held by the Department.
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