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Illegal goods seized from shops
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1. How many shops has your council’s Trading Standards team seized illegal cigarettes, tobacco or vaping products from in the individual financial years 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025? If possible please break this down by:
a) Estimated value in Pound Sterling of items seized: We do not hold this data
b) Total number of items seized:
2022: 0
2023: 242
2024: 17
2025: 0
c) Product type seized (cigarettes, vapes, other vaping products such as e-liquids, rolling tobacco or other):
2022:
2023: vapes
2024: vapes
2025:
d) Type of shop (e.g. mini mart, vape shop, barber, car wash): We do not hold this data
2. How many shops have been shut in your local authority due to seizures of illegal cigarettes, tobacco or vapes in the individual financial years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25? Within each financial year, please break this down by:
a) Temporary closures:
2022: 0
2023: 0
2024: 0
2025: 0
b) Permanent closures (Please indicate whether your Trading Standards body has the power to permanently close shops. If not, please indicate who does have this power and if you hold information on these figures.)
2022: 0
2023: 0
2024: 0
2025: 0
c) Number of times the same shop has been closed due to the above. Please indicate whether the most recent closure was permanent or temporary.
2022: 0
2023: 0
2024: 0
2025: 0
