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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2023-02-07more like thismore than 2023-02-07
answering body
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 Organised Crime: Smuggling more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
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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 steps her Department is taking to tackle criminal smuggler gangs. more like this
tabling member constituency York Outer more like this
tabling member printed
Julian Sturdy more like this
uin 141419 more like this
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answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2023-02-15more like thismore than 2023-02-15
answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling the ruthless criminal gangs who facilitate illegal immigration, risk lives and damage communities by smuggling people, firearms and drugs into the UK.</p><p>We are working to end small boat crossings and disrupt the organised crime groups behind this activity. Through Project INVIGOR, a multi-agency taskforce, the Home Office is leading efforts to tackle organised immigration crime and the National Crime Agency is responding to and dismantling the business model used by organised criminals to enable illegal entry into the UK.</p><p>We are strengthening the security of the UK border against drug trafficking, increasing disruptions and seizures and dismantling supply chains.</p><p>As part of the Government’s ten-year Drugs Strategy, the Home Office is investing £300m over three years to deliver an end-to-end plan attacking every phase of the supply chain, making the UK a significantly harder place for organised crime groups involved in drugs supply to operate.</p>
answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales more like this
answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines more like this
question first answered
less than 2023-02-15T15:23:23.463Zmore like thismore than 2023-02-15T15:23:23.463Z
answering member
4816
label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines more like this
tabling member
4079
label Biography information for Julian Sturdy remove filter