Question follow-through · 114661
Exploitation: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that national strategies on child criminal exploitation include gender-specific approaches for girls and young women.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that national strategies on child criminal exploitation include gender-specific approaches for girls and young women.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Mar 2026
Answer published
Children and young people, particularly those exploited by county lines gangs, are often used to carry out criminal activity. That is why the Government is introducing a new offence of child criminal exploitation and new civil preventative orders to targe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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