Baroness Crawley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Crawley on 2016-01-20.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what independent analysis of different systems for tobacco control and product authentication HMRC is proposing to undertake.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley

The EU Commission is currently considering how the track and trace system and security feature provisions of the EU Tobacco Products Directive will be implemented.

Until this is decided HMRC have no plans for independent analysis of different systems for tobacco control and product authentication.