HC Deb 17 July 2003 vol 409 c482W
Mr. Jenkin

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what value of drugs has been confiscated in operations involving Royal Navy warships in each of the past two years. [126139]

Mr. Ingram

Royal Navy warships provide assistance to HM Customs and Excise and other anti-narcotics agencies resulting in the seizure of drugs worth some £40 million in 2001–02 and some £110 million in 2002–03. So far in 2003–04 drugs worth approximately £500 million have been seized.