Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce firearm smuggling into the UK.

The Government is committed to tackling the threat posed by trafficking of illicit firearms into the UK.

The high harm nature of firearms means that the potential threat from criminals and terrorists gaining access to and using firearms poses a significant risk to public safety.

To tackle the flow of illicit firearms being trafficked into the UK, Border Force and its partners ensure that we have the right intelligence, detection and enforcement capabilities at the border. Alongside this, the National Crime Agency and our international partners tackle the threat upstream by engaging with source and nexus countries.