Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle the smuggling of khat from the Middle East.

Khat is a Class C Drug and therefore Border Force seek to prevent its importation into the UK by interdicting it at the border.

As part of our ten years drugs strategy, the Home Office is investing 300 million over three years to mobilise a robust plan that attacks every phrase of the supply chain. Together with NCA partners we will continue to protect our borders and bring justice to those who attempt to smuggle drugs into the UK.