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Drugs: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, what discussions have taken place with the Government of

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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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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Border Force press release entitled Border Force: don't let drug smugglers steal your future, published on 17 July 2026, what discussions have taken place with the Government of

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The Border Force activity highlighted in the press release formed part of wider operational and safeguarding work to raise awareness of the risks of criminal exploitation by organised crime groups involved in drug smuggling. The activity was delivered usi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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