Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment has been made of the level of threat from organised crime and gang activity in Northern Ireland.

Policing and Justice, apart from National Security, are devolved. The Police Service of Northern Ireland monitors the threat from organised crime groups in order to inform their operational response.

The Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime, which is jointly funded by the Northern Ireland Executive and UK Government, works to tackle the presence of paramilitaries through evidence-based early interventions, targeted law enforcement measures and initiatives that provide direct support to help build safer communities which are more resilient to paramilitarism and linked criminality.