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People Smuggling

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 30 January 2025UIN 26363

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 22404 on People Smuggling, whether her Department has recorded the number of OIC groups that have been broken up by law enforcement agencies since 4 July 2024.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

Where it is possible to make them public, the Home Office and National Crime Agency regularly publish details of successful operations about OIC gangs, including on numbers of arrests and volumes of seizures, and will continue to do so in the future.

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