Question follow-through · 57176

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to create national guidelines for preventing adult grooming.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
5 Jun 2025
Answer
12 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to create national guidelines for preventing adult grooming.

  2. 5 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is taking a range of actions to prevent the grooming and exploitation of vulnerable adults.To tackle criminal exploitation, we are introducing a new cuckooing offence in the Crime and Policing Bill to target criminals who groom and exploit ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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