Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help the Northern Ireland Executive and the Police Service of Northern Ireland to tackle drug smuggling in Northern Ireland.

Border Force is responsible for frontline international border control operations in Northern Ireland which includes tackling drug smuggling. Border Force has an active role in a number of the multi-agency Northern Ireland
Organised Crime Task Force (OCTF) working groups, including the OCTF Drugs Subgroup. Border Force and the Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI) have existing operational pathways to ensure the drug seizures destined for Northern
Ireland detected at the border can be adopted and investigated further by the PSNI.