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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2018-01-29more like thismore than 2018-01-29
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Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Drugs: Internet more like this
house id 1 more like this
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pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to prevent the sale of illegal drugs online. more like this
tabling member constituency Aberdeen South more like this
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Ross Thomson remove filter
uin 125216 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2018-02-05more like thismore than 2018-02-05
answer text <p>We want the UK to be the safest place in the world to be online. Anything that is illegal offline should be illegal online.</p><p>The Government and law enforcement agencies take the unlawful advertising and sales of drugs on the internet very seriously. Tough enforcement is a fundamental part of the Government’s drug strategy and we are taking coordinated action to tackle illegal drugs alongside other criminal activity.</p><p>Law enforcement agencies continue to work with internet providers to shut down UK-based websites found to be committing offences, building on work already underway to tackle the sale and supply of illegal drugs in the UK and overseas and tackle associated organised crime.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle more like this
answering member printed Victoria Atkins more like this
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label Biography information for Victoria Atkins more like this
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label Biography information for Ross Thomson more like this