Question follow-through · 33704
Drugs: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle drug related crime in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and (b) Staffordshire.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle drug related crime in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and (b) Staffordshire.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
To deliver on our pledge to halve knife crime in the next decade, it is crucial that we tackle the gangs that lure children and young people into crime and run county lines through violence and exploitation.County Lines are the most violent model of drug ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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