Request for information on shisha cafes

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Dear Zainab Hussain,

Re: FOI F12727

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.

Please find below the response to your recent request. The information has
been provided by our Environmental Health Team.

Trading Standards are delivered by Kent County Council.   You can contact
the FOI Team directly at Kent County Council by email to
[1][email address] 

Your request and our response:

Q1.  Please provide the estimated number or range of shisha cafes known as
of January 2024.

Please reply "unknown" if this information is not held.

Unknown

Q2. a) Please state the number of prosecutions made for violations of the
smoke-free law in 2023.

No prosecutions have been carried out under the smoke-free law.

b) How many of these violations were by shisha cafes?

N/A

Q3. a) Please state how many inspections were made to shisha cafes by
Trading Standards, Environmental Health, or other officers in 2023.

We do not keep specific information on Shisha cafes.

b) Of these inspections, how many shisha cafes required intervention due
to lack of compliance with policies (including tobacco, health and safety,
and licensing laws).

c) Of these inspections, approximately how many kilograms of illicit
shisha tobacco were seized in total?

d) Of these inspections, how many led to successful prosecutions and what
was the total amount ordered to pay from the shisha cafe business?

Q4. Please state the number of reports of underage smoking at shisha cafes
in 2023.

No information held

Q5. Please state the number of complaints made for noise and nuisance
against shisha cafes in 2023.

No information held

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FOI Team

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