Question follow-through · 125492
Shipping: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce international maritime drug smuggling through British ports.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 21 Apr 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce international maritime drug smuggling through British ports.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Apr 2026
Answer published
Border Force runs a 24/7 operation, with its officers working at over 140 sea and airports across the UK and overseas. We are determined to protect the public from drug trafficking and crack down on organised crime groups behind illicit drugs supply by ta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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