Written question asked by James McMurdock (Independent (affiliation)) on Tuesday, 6 January 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 8 January 2026. It was answered by Dan Jarvis (Labour) on Tuesday, 13 January 2026 on behalf of the Home Office.
Drugs: Venezuela
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the quantity of Venezuelan drug exports prevented from being smuggled to the UK in each year since 2020.
- Answer
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Drug misuse can have a devastating impact on the safety, productivity, and health and wellbeing of our communities. Cocaine is smuggled into the UK via a number of different routes and methodologies, which frequently change in response to international law enforcement activity. The Home Office does not publish data by country of origin. Since the beginning of 2020, Border Force, across England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland have seized the following amounts of cocaine from overseas:
Year
Amount of cocaine seized (Kgs)
2020
6,512
2021
16,044
2022
16,337.33
2023
18,038.14
2024
26,143.19
2025 (Q1 & Q2)
15,268.37
The National Crime Agency’s National Strategic Assessment 2025 on Drugs provides further detail on cocaine flows and can be found here - NSA 2025 - Drugs - National Crime Agency.
Secondary information
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- Written question
- Reference
- 103663
- Session
- 2024-26
- Grouped for answer
- Yes
- Subjects
- Crime prevention Drugs Venezuela Smuggling
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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- 2026-01-13 12:26:39 +0000
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