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Drugs: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to help tackle the transportation of illegal drugs through county lines in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset.

answeredAdam DanceHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
30 Apr 2025
Answer
30 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to help tackle the transportation of illegal drugs through county lines in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset.

  2. 30 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    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 exploitation.Through the County Lines Programme, we will continue to target exploitative drug dealing gan...

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