Illegal Tobacco Stores

Ms PRATT (Frome) (14:26): My question is to the Minister for Arts. Have CBS officers conducted any raids in regional areas and, if so, how many?

The Hon. A. MICHAELS (Enfield—Minister for Small and Family Business, Minister for Consumer and Business Affairs, Minister for Arts) (14:26): I can inform the member that a substantial number of raids have been done in regional areas. Of course, it is operational in terms of identifying which stores have been raided, and we won't go there, but about 17 per cent of all raids that CBS have conducted have been in regional South Australia. A substantial amount of product has been taken off the streets in regional South Australia.

In fact, I think about a week ago when I did some press on it it was over $1 million of product that had been taken off the streets just from regional South Australia. SAPOL are also undertaking work in regional South Australia, but it is certainly a priority of CBS, and a significant amount of work has been done in regional South Australia right throughout, but particularly in the Mid North.

Ms PRATT: Supplementary.

The SPEAKER: We will see if it is a supplementary.