Question follow-through · 107122

Customs: Airports

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the ability of airports to complete full customs checks on small packages imported from abroad in the last 12 months.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
22 Jan 2026
Answer
26 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the ability of airports to complete full customs checks on small packages imported from abroad in the last 12 months.

  2. 22 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Border Force work closely with law enforcement partners to share intelligence and have a strong track record in targeting illicit commodities via a threat and intelligence led approach; and we continue to examine goods brought into the UK by passengers ar...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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