Question follow-through · 33876

Exploitation: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of standardising the legal definition of criminal child exploitation for the purposes of having consistent national statistics on criminal child

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Home Office
Tabled
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
3 Mar 2025
Answer
3 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 26 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of standardising the legal definition of criminal child exploitation for the purposes of having consistent national statistics on criminal child

  2. 3 Mar 2025

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  3. 3 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    This Government is committed to tackling child criminal exploitation (CCE) and going after the gangs who are luring children into violence and crime. Data from the Department for Education's Children in Need statistics allow us to estimate there were arou...

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