Tobacco Smuggling And Taxation

EDM number 376 in 2000-01, proposed by John Cummings on 27/02/2001.

That this House notes with dismay that despite recent efforts made to improve the effectiveness of HM Customs and Excise, smuggling of tobacco products into the United Kingdom continues at such a seriously high level that one third of all cigarettes purchased in Great Britain and Northern Ireland have entered the country illegally; further notes that the influx of cheap contraband tobacco products has led to an increase in smoking, in particular among young people, while at the same time threatening jobs of workers in the British tobacco manufacturing industry and depriving Her Majesty's Treasury of ú3 billion worth of revenue; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to accept that this alarming situation is caused by the ever widening gap between British and continental tobacco taxation and therefore to reduce or at least freeze the duty on tobacco in the Chancellor's Budget.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John Cummings	27/02/2001	Easington	Labour	Proposed
Roy Beggs	28/02/2001	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Harry Barnes	28/02/2001	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Norman Godman	28/02/2001	Greenock & Inverclyde	Labour	Signed
Frank Cook	28/02/2001	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Eric Clarke	28/02/2001	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	28/02/2001	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Ian Paisley	28/02/2001	North Antrim	DUP	Signed
Laura Moffatt	28/02/2001	Crawley	Labour	Signed
Ken Maginnis	28/02/2001	Fermanagh & South Tyrone	UUP	Signed
Martin Smyth	28/02/2001	Belfast South	UUP	Signed
William Ross	28/02/2001	East Londonderry	UUP	Signed
Mike Hancock	01/03/2001	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harold Best	01/03/2001	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	05/03/2001	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Andy King	06/03/2001	Rugby & Kenilworth	Labour	Signed
Syd Rapson	06/03/2001	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Jon Trickett	07/03/2001	Hemsworth	Labour	Signed
Tom Cox	07/03/2001	Tooting	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	07/03/2001	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Bill Olner	07/03/2001	Nuneaton	Labour	Signed
Terry Lewis	07/03/2001	Worsley	Labour	Signed
John Robertson	07/03/2001	Glasgow, Anniesland	Labour	Signed
Stephen Pound	07/03/2001	Ealing North	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	08/03/2001	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	12/03/2001	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Robert McCartney	12/03/2001	North Down	UKUP	Signed
Edward O'Hara	14/03/2001	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
John McWilliam	15/03/2001	Blaydon	Labour	Signed
Fraser Kemp	02/04/2001	Houghton & Washington East	Labour	Signed
John Marek	02/04/2001	Wrexham	Labour	Signed

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