The Minister for Crime and Policing ():...The right hon. Gentleman will be pleased to
hear that, with the Minister for Security and Borders, my right
hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (), who is here on the Front
Bench and leads on economic crime, we have an operation under way
with the National Crime
Agency called Project Plutus, which is about both
intercepting that money and, critically, learning about the flows
of money, within the UK—whether that is into property assets or
elsewhere—and internationally. If we can cut the money flow, then
the business itself becomes pointless and hopefully it will
disappear...
...They, of course, have presided over the incidence of drug
deaths in her city for many years now. Happily, they have made an
investment in health just recently—just before the election in
which they were standing to be re-elected as the Government. The
hon. Lady can shout at me all she likes, but until she shouts at
me and the Scottish Government, it will be hard to take her
completely seriously.
Having said that, I believe that the strategy that we have put in
place will have an impact in the hon. Lady’s constituency, not
least because in the early part of 2019, as she will recall, it
was enforcement efforts by the National Crime
Agency in this country—in England—that intercepted
27 million street benzo tablets destined for Glasgow. That is the
kind of impact that we can have on behalf of the whole United
Kingdom...
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