Please provide the following information for each year since 2020, in a spreadsheet format where possible:
Inspection coverage and test purchasing The number of premises in your area identified as selling vaping products, as at 31 March each year.
The separate premises at which you carried out a test purchase of vaping products, and of those, how many sold to the underage volunteer.
What number of advice, compliance or inspection visits to premises selling vaping products, excluding test purchases.
The number of premises identified as selling vaping products that received no visit of any kind and no test purchase during the year.
Premises trading while not on the Register
The number of premises identified as carrying on a tobacco or nicotine vapor product business in breach of legislation governing the sale of those products, i.e. premises selling to people under the legal age.
How those premises came to your attention - proactive checking, third-party complaint, or another route.
What action was taken against the premises at question
5. Enforcement action
The number of fixed penalty notices issued in connection with vaping products.
The number of written warnings issued.
The number of cases reported for prosecution.
The number of applications for a restricted premises order under the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026, or any equivalent order under previous legislation, and how many were granted.
The number of convictions you are aware of arising from those reports.
Reports from the public, resourcing and policy
The number of complaints or reports from the public alleging sale of vaping products to an under-18.
Of those, how many led to a visit or test purchase within 12 weeks.
The number of full-time equivalent trading standards officers at 31 March each year, and how many had tobacco and vaping duties.
Whether there is a written policy, target or minimum inspection frequency, and a copy if so.
The value of government grant funding for tobacco and nicotine vapour product enforcement each year.
