Trading Standards

  • Illegal Cigarettes, Tobacco and Vaping Products

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information covering up to 1 September 2025, and broken down by individual financial year where possible. ________________________________________ 1. Seizures of Illegal Cigarettes, Tobacco & Vaping Products … Continue reading →

  • Single-use vapes ban

    Please can you provide the following information: – The number of £200 fines issued by your local authority to individuals or businesses for breaches of the ban on single-use vapes that came into force on 1 June 2025. – The … Continue reading →

  • Counterfeit vehicle parts

    Please provide the following data for your area: 1.The total number of counterfeit vehicle parts (such as tyres, wheels, airbags and brakes) that have been seized, for each of the past five calendar years (2020-2024, and any available data for … Continue reading →

  • Illegal cigarettes, tobacco and vaping products

    1. How many shops has your council’s Trading Standards team seized illegal cigarettes, tobacco or vaping products from in the individual financial years 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025?  If possible please break this down by: a. Estimated value in Pound Sterling … Continue reading →

  • Single-use plastic regulations

    Please provide the following information covering the period from 2020 to the present: 1. The number of inspections or compliance activities your authority has carried out in relation to single-use plastic regulations (for example bans on plastic straws, cutlery, polystyrene … Continue reading →

  • Animal Welfare Enforcement

    Please provide the following information covering the years 2019 to 2024, broken down by year where possible: 1.The number of farmed animal welfare inspections conducted by your authority. Heart of the South West Trading Standards have completed 2,306 animal health … Continue reading →

  • Contact with tobacco industry

    Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing … Continue reading →

  • Seizures of Nicotine Pouches

    I would like to request the following: 1. How many illicit nicotine pouch products has your Trading Standards team seized for 2023 and 2024? None 2. If the nicotine pouches were seized for being labelled in languages other than English, … Continue reading →

  • Vape shops

    How many retailers in your local authority have been identified as engaging in underage vape sales in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024? Please provide these figures by individual calendar year (January to December). The following figures relate to … Continue reading →