Trading standards seizure of illegal vapes and testing

Luke Chafer made this Freedom of Information request to City of London Corporation as part of a batch sent to 34 authorities Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Please let us know if a further response is expected or if you are having trouble responding.

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Luke Chafer
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Dear FOI team,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and relates to your trading standards service.

Please can you provide the following information

1) How many illegal vapes have been seized by the trading standards service in the past year (January 2023 – January 2024)
2) Of these vapes, how many were tested for the presence of prohibited substances
3) Of those tested, how many tested positive for fentanyl

If possible, please can you provide these statistics broken down by month.

I would like to remind you that you have 20 working days to respond. If you would like further clarification on the request, please contact me on +44 7469992844.

Please confirm receipt of this request.

Thank you in advance,

Yours faithfully,

Luke Chafer

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Dear Luke Chafer,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL), sometimes also called the City of London Corporation, acknowledges receipt of your two identical requests for information of 9 February 2024.

(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places under two different names -
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...
- where your identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact one legal entity. Its full, official name is 'The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. We have informed the WDTK website that it is maintaining two sections for one body, and that it would be less confusing for applicants if the site referred to the CoL under one name instead of maintaining two lists and two names for the same legal entity, but it has declined to make the change. For further clarification of the position of the CoL under the FOIA, please see Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA, which describes the CoL as being subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The Common Council of the City of London, in respect of information held in its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health authority').

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the "Square Mile", ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (City of London - Interactive Mapping), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor's Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

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