Question follow-through · 123583
Drugs: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to to tackle county lines gangs targeting children to act as drug runners.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 13 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to to tackle county lines gangs targeting children to act as drug runners.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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13 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to halving knife crime and tackling violent and exploitative county lines gangs is crucial to achieving this. That is why we are investing more than £34 million in 26/27 in the County Lines Programme, to pursue violent line hol...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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