Question follow-through · 77419

Nitrous Oxide: Import Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of partnering with customs to monitor the importation of nitrous oxide.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 15 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 13 Oct 2025
Answer: 13 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of partnering with customs to monitor the importation of nitrous oxide.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
Border Force works closely with law enforcement and our partners across the world to share intelligence in order to protect the public. We have seen a record level of drug seizures in FY2024, demonstrating police and Border Force are working relentlessly ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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