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Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle (a) grooming gangs and (b) child sexual exploitation.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
13 Feb 2025
Answer
19 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle (a) grooming gangs and (b) child sexual exploitation.

  2. 13 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    On 6 and 16 January, the Home Secretary announced to Parliament a raft of measures to go further in tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation, including 'grooming gangs' offending.The Home Secretary has written to the National Police Chiefs' Council re...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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