Retail Trade: Organised Crime
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many raids have been conducted on vape shops by law enforcement agencies in England in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Sarah Jones
On 19 May, the Government announced a £30 million crackdown targeting cash intensive business such as barber shops, vape stores, mini-marts and sweet shops operating on our high streets, over three years. This includes £20million in funding towards an enhanced law enforcement response and the creation of a new cross-government High Street Organised Crime Unit to tackle this threat.
Raids are carried out by the police and local authorities. The Home Office does not hold data on the total number of raids in relation to vape shops in England in the past ten calendar years.
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