Question follow-through · 74645

National Crime Agency: People Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's announcement entitled Investment for Border Security Command to tackle people smuggling gangs of 3 August 2025, what the responsibilities of the 300 additional Natio

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
11 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's announcement entitled Investment for Border Security Command to tackle people smuggling gangs of 3 August 2025, what the responsibilities of the 300 additional Natio

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The additional National Crime Agency officers will play a vital role in strengthening the NCA’s response to organised immigration crime (OIC).This uplift in resource reflects the Agency’s commitment to tackling the OIC threat with greater intensity than e...

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