Written Question·Home Office·UIN 32614

Drugs: Organised Crime

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Jessica Toale

LabourBournemouth West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle county lines drug trafficking in (a) coastal communities and (b) Dorset.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
County lines is the most violent and exploitative model of drug distribution nationally, and a harmful form of Child Criminal Exploitation. We committed in our manifesto to go after the gangs who lure young people into violence and crime, and we will deli...

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