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Electronic Cigarettes: Retail Trade

Asked by Jenny Riddell-CarpenterLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 19 January 2026UIN 103572

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many retailers have been prosecuted for the sale of non-compliant or illegal vaping products in each of the last five years in (a) Suffolk Coastal, (b) Suffolk and (c) East Anglia.

Answered by Sarah Jones

The Home Office does not hold information on prosecutions for the sale of illegal vaping products as the prosecuting authority for such offences is primarily local authority Trading Standards departments.

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