Question reference: S5W-01258
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 6 July 2016
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Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 29 July 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been removed from the Scottish Tobacco Retailers Register due to offences under the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010 in each year, broken down by category of offence.
Answer
In total there have been five tobacco banning orders in the five years since the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010 has been introduced.
In 2012–2013 one banning order was issued to a retailer who persistently sold illicit and counterfeit tobacco. In 2013–2014 two banning orders were issued to two different retailers who had sold packets of cigarettes to persons under 18 years old. In 2014–2015 one banning order was issued to a retailer who had sold tobacco to a person under 18 years old. In 2015–2016 one banning order was issued to a retailer selling tobacco in a premises which was not registered.