Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Justice, how many people have been convicted of trying to smuggle drugs into the UK in each of the last two years.

The Ministry of Justice has published information regarding convictions for unlawful importation of drugs offences in England and Wales which be found at the following link –

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx

In the ‘Offence’ field, filter by -

‘92A.01 Unlawful importation - Class A’

‘92A.02 Unlawful importation - Class B’

‘92A.03 Unlawful importation - Class C’

‘92A.04 Unlawful importation - unknown class’

to obtain these figures. The total number of defendants convicted for the unlawful importation of drugs across the 2008-2018 decade will appear in row 25 of the pivot table.