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Smoking and Tobacco: Excise Duties

Asked by Andrew RosindellReform UKTreasuryTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 69750

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make a comparative assessment of (a) the data in UCL’s report entitled Trends in smoking prevalence and socio-economic inequalities across regions in England: A population study, 2006 to 2024, published on 18 March 2025 with (b) the decrease in HMRC’s tobacco duty receipts in the Tobacco Bulletin in (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2024-2025.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

Tobacco duty receipts reported in HMRC’s Tobacco Duty Bulletin fell 10% between 2023/24 and 2024/25. This publication reports on receipts collected at the UK level.

UCL’s “Trends in smoking prevalence and socio-economic inequalities across regions in England: A population study, 2006 to 2024” report discusses a range of issues and suggests that smoking prevalence in England declined from 25.3% in 2006 to 16.5% in 2024. This report looks at English smoking prevalence only and so is not directly comparable with the UK receipts published in HMRC’s Tobacco Bulletin.

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