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Electronic Cigarettes: Sales

Answer

Operation Joseph was established to enforce the rules on vaping, and tackle illicit vapes and underage sales. It supplements work being undertaken by local authorities using existing local government funding. The £3 million of funding has been allocated over two years, from 2023/24 to 2024/25. A grant was provided to the National Trading Standards to commission specific areas of work, and to support local authorities. The following table shows the budget of each work area as of February 2024, as well as the total allocated:

Work Area	Budget
Business Education	£88,800
Professional Training and Upskilling	£164,400
Intelligence and Data	£500,000
Supporting storage and disposal costs for local authority seizures	£600,000
Online test purchasing and website takedowns	£80,000
Market Surveillance and testing of vaping products	£140,000
Tackling the import of illegal vapes	£1,087,000
Programme Governance Communications and Evaluation	£281,000
Contingency	£58,800
Total Allocated	£3,000,000

Note: The figures shown are based on allocations in February 2024, and may be subject to change.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

19833

Session

2023-24

Subjects

Finance Sales Trading standards Electronic cigarettes

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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