Question follow-through · 26363

People Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 22404 on People Smuggling, whether her Department has recorded the number of OIC groups that have been broken up by law enforcement agencies since

answeredHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
30 Jan 2025
Answer
30 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 22404 on People Smuggling, whether her Department has recorded the number of OIC groups that have been broken up by law enforcement agencies since

  2. 30 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Where it is possible to make them public, the Home Office and National Crime Agency regularly publish details of successful operations about OIC gangs, including on numbers of arrests and volumes of seizures, and will continue to do so in the future.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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