- Request
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Q1) 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 b. Total number of items seized c. Product type seized (cigarettes, vapes, other vaping products such as e-liquids, rolling tobacco or other) d. Type of shop (e.g. mini mart, vape shop, barber, car wash)
Q2) 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
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.)
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. - Decision
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I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.
1a-d. Please see table below
Year
Number of premises seized from
Products Seized by Type
Shop Type
2022-2023
44
Cigarettes – 404,993 sticks (20,250 packs)
Tobacco – 54,350g (1,087 packs)
Vapes – 9,430
38 Mini Mart
3 Vape Shops
2 Mobile Phone Shops
1 Domestic Premise / House
2023-2024
42
Cigarettes – 130,680 sticks (6,534 packs)
Tobacco – 235,250g (4,705 packs)
Vapes – 11,959
35 Mini Mart
2 Vape Shops
2 Vehicles
1 Domestic Premise / House
1 Petrol Station
1 Barber
2024-2025
53
Cigarettes – 798,926 sticks (39,946 packs)
Tobacco – 189,510g (3,790 packs)
Vapes – 13,604
36 Mini Mart
8 Vape Shops
2 Vehicles
2 Self Storage Site
1 Takeaway
1 Car Boot
1 Domestic Premise / House
1 Mobile Phone Shops
1 Furniture Shop
2a-c. Please see table below
Year
Number
Perm/Temp*
Number of Times**
2022-2023
12 closure orders
All Temporary Closure Orders for 3 months
8 received their first closure order
4 received their second closure order
2023-2024
32 closure orders
All Temporary Closure Orders for 3 months
23 received their first closure order
5 received their second closure order
4 received their third closure order
2024-2025
74 closure orders
1 undertaking
All Temporary Closure Orders for 3 months – although 4 had their 3 month closure orders extended for a further 3 months
42 received their first closure order
20 received their second closure order
8 received their third closure order
4 received their fourth closure order
* We can only issue temporary closure orders
** Where premises are receiving their second or more closure order, the previous orders are not necessarily within the same financial year
- Reference number
- .12593101
- Date request received
- 29 May 2025
- Date of decision
- 25 June 2025