Smuggling: Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the value was of (a) alcohol and (b) tobacco products seized by HM Customs in each of the last five years for which figures are available. (129454)

The amount of seized alcohol and tobacco products can be found in the HMRC Annual Report

(http://www.hmrc.qov.uk/about/reports.htm),

and is shown in the following table.

	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Cigarettes seizures (including overseas) (billion)	2.6	1.9	1 .8	2.0	2.0
Tobacco seizures (tonnes)	385	258	185	166	160
Spirits seized (million litres)	2.15	0.92	0.41	0.30	0.24
Beer seized (million litres)	2.61	2.95	2.77	2.18	2.52
Wine seized (million litres)	0.61	0.65	1.13	0.63	0.29

Volume 458: debated on Wednesday 28 March 2007