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 Johnson
The 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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