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Record Ref : FOI 11335
Date Received : 09/04/2025
Date Completed : 01/05/2025
Organisation : Private Individual
Application Type : Private Individual
Category : Expenditure, Budgets and Income
Question
Please provide a breakdown of the council’s annual activity and spending in each of the past five years on activities to combat the illicit tobacco market. This can include but is not limited to, inspecting businesses, investigating reports of illicit sales, and seizing illegal products.
Answer
Merthyr Tydfil Trading Standards are intelligence led, there are no programmed inspections of businesses. We are unable to provide a breakdown of spending, there is no mechanism for recording every member of staff’s time put into illicit tobacco, which can include anything from recording reports, proactive checks, investigating reports, test purchases, warrants, seizures, to full prosecutions. 2020 Investigating reports – 3 Prosecution – illicit sales by 3 individuals from a convenience store 2021 Investigating reports – 4 2022 Investigating reports – 2 Seizures – 2 2023 Investigating reports – 0 2024 Investigating reports – 4