| Heading: |
Wildlife: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1809680 |
| UIN: |
57611 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
350 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sir John Hayes
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sir John Hayes
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for offences related to wildlife and timber trafficking as part of Operation Thunder in each of the last five years. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-13 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Diana Johnson
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| Answering Member handle: |
DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answer text: |
The primary objective of Operation Thunder is to increase seizures of items being illicitly trafficked, and use those seizures as the basis to initiate investigations into the organised groups around the world responsible for that trafficking. As a result... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |