Tobacco: Smuggling
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of how many illegal cigarettes were smuggled into the UK in 2023.
Answered by Seema Malhotra
The transparency data showing the total amount of illegal cigarettes seized by Border Force in 2023 is available at the following page:
Border Force Transparency 2023
Qty of Cigarettes (sticks)
Q1 156,104,848
Q2 197,641,347
Q3 259,625,932
Q4 210,205,139
Total 823,577,266
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