Original sentence: Between 2001 and 2006, consumer spending in the UK for Halloween rose tenfold, from £12 m to £120 m, according to Bryan Roberts from industry analysts Planet Retail, making Halloween the third most profitable holiday for supermarkets.In England and Wales, trick-or-treating does still occur, although the practice is regarded by some as a nuisance or even a menacing form of begging.One of the earliest references to trick or treating in Britain comes from a House of Lords debate in 1986, when it was described as a recently imported custom: the substance of the debate was the concern that youths were using trick or treating to obtain money from old people and others, or threatening nasty tricks.This led to the introduction of practises such as pumpkin carving and trick-or-treat.With Halloween being rooted in Gaelic culture in Ireland and Scotland, celebrations in England were not common until the late 20th century with American popularization of the event, including a stream of films and television programmes aimed at children and adolescents and the discovery by retail experts of a marketing opportunity to fill the empty space before Christmas