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<p>The Government has committed to increasing investment for enforcement agencies
by £30 million per year. The additional funding in England will boost agencies such
as local trading standards, to enforce the new age of sale and vaping measures. It
will also scale up HM Revenue and Customs and Border Force activity, to stamp out
opportunities for criminals in the illicit tobacco trade.</p><p>Of this funding, over
£100 million over five years will support HM Revenue and Custom’s and Border Force’s
new illicit tobacco strategy, published on 29 January 2024. We are working closely
with Trading Standards to consider how the new funding can best support their programmes
of local-level enforcement.</p>
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