Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57611
Nature Conservation and Timber: Arrests
Tabled: 5 June 2025
Answered: 13 June 2025
Question
Sir John Hayes
Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for offences related to wildlife and timber trafficking as part of Operation Thunder in each of the last five years.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe primary objective of Operation Thunder is to increase seizures of items being illicitly trafficked, and use those seizures as the basis to initiate investigations into the organised groups around the world responsible for that trafficking. As a result...
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