Question follow-through · 99891
Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent general aviation aircrafts, landing at small airports, airfields and airstrips, from facilitating the smuggling of (a) people, (b) drug and (c) arms.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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- Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026 · 24 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent general aviation aircrafts, landing at small airports, airfields and airstrips, from facilitating the smuggling of (a) people, (b) drug and (c) arms.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2026
Answer published
The security of the UK border remains our top priority, and this government is committed to strengthening border security. Border Force conducts robust security checks on those arriving into the UK, including 100% checks on all notified general aviation f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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