Question follow-through · 23273
Import Controls: Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child-sex dolls have been seized via Operation Shiraz in each year since the operation began.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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- USA: Armed Forces · 14 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child-sex dolls have been seized via Operation Shiraz in each year since the operation began.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
Border Force works with law enforcement partners under Operation Shiraz to identify and disrupt the importation of child-like sexual abuse dolls and related items into the United Kingdom. Seizures made under the operation are recorded for operational and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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