Cross-border Crime

Part of Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 3:19 pm on 11 March 2015.

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Photo of Andrew Murrison Andrew Murrison Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Northern Ireland Office) 3:19, 11 March 2015

I am certainly not going to assert that any marker or anything added to a substance is incapable of being removed, but clearly it is perfectly possible to launder fuel at the moment—it happens all the while—and although the pattern of fuel laundering is changing, as was touched upon by Naomi Long, nevertheless it remains and brings with it financial and environmental costs, and costs in terms of criminality, security and all the rest of it. I am advised that the new marker, which we will introduce in May, is an improvement on what we currently have.