Question follow-through · 57611
Nature Conservation and Timber: Arrests
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for offences related to wildlife and timber trafficking as part of Operation Thunder in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for offences related to wildlife and timber trafficking as part of Operation Thunder in each of the last five years.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jun 2025
Answer published
The primary objective of Operation Thunder is to increase seizures of items being illicitly trafficked, and use those seizures as the basis to initiate investigations into the organised groups around the world responsible for that trafficking. As a result...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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