Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspicious transactions, within the terms of the Poisons Act 1972 as amended, have been reported using the (a) national contact point, (b) the chemical.reporting@met.police.uk email address and (c) local 101 or 999 services in each of the last two years.

Since the implementation of EU regulation 98/2013 on the marketing and use of explosives precursors in 2014, which introduced the legal requirement for retailers to report suspicious transactions and is now implemented through the Poisons Act 1972, the Home Office has engaged with a wide range of retailers that supply both regulated and reportable explosive precursors and poisons.

This ongoing work has resulted in suspicious transactions being reported to the police. Due to operational security, we are unable to provide exact details.