Question follow-through · 23602
Drugs: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle criminal activity via county lines.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle criminal activity via county lines.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
County Lines is the most violent model of drug supply and a harmful form of child criminal exploitation. To deliver our pledge to halve knife crime in the next decade, it is crucial that we tackle the drug gangs that run county lines through violence and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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