Written Question·Home Office·UIN 65264

Cocaine

Tabled: 7 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of seizures of cocaine at (a) ports and (b) airports on the supply of the drug.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
In 2023/24, 28.3 tonnes of powder cocaine was seized by police and Border Force in England and Wales. This was an increase from 18.6 tonnes the previous year and the largest recorded quantity of cocaine seized since the time series began in 1973.However, ...
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