Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many National Crime Agency-led arrests there have been in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months; and how many convictions there have been as a result of those arrests.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) works in partnership with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) when operating in Northern Ireland, including through the Paramilitary Crime Task Force (PCTF), a multi-agency effort to protect the communities of Northern Ireland by tackling all forms of criminality linked to paramilitarism.

In the last 12-month period (July 2018 – June 2019) NCA-led activity has led to three arrests and seven convictions in Northern Ireland.

Convictions are not necessarily linked to arrests in the same period as the individuals convicted may have been arrested in a previous reporting period.