Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Sheet 3 of the UK Border Force’s quarterly transparency data, updated on 24 August 2023, how many of the heroin seizures in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022 were consignments intercepted while attempting to enter the UK via the Channel ports.

Border Force does not hold the data in an easily accessible format on how many of the cocaine seizures in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022 were consignments intercepted while attempting to enter the UK via the Channel ports.

The links for the main seizures publication can be found at Gov.UK: Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)