Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 19060

Syria: Fenethylline

Tabled: 10 December 2024
Answered: 17 December 2024
Named Day

Question

Alicia Kearns

ConservativeRutland and Stamford

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) identify and (b) destroy Captagon (i) production and (ii) distribution facilities in Syria.

Answer

Mr Hamish Falconer
We are concerned by the growth of the Captagon industry, which as well as enriching the former Assad regime, is fuelling regional instability and generating vast revenues for criminal gangs and armed groups in Syria and across the region. We are working w...

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