Written Question·Home Office·UIN 22097

Drugs: Organised Crime

Tabled: 6 January 2025
Answered: 14 January 2025

Question

Alicia Kearns

ConservativeRutland and Stamford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of making cuckooing a crime.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Cuckooing is an appalling practice associated with violence, exploitation and anti-social behaviour.The Government’s Safer Streets Mission aims to tackle these issues and we will make further announcements in the normal way in due course.