Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121832
Drugs: Organised Crime
Tabled: 18 March 2026
Answered: 23 March 2026
Question
Shivani Raja
Conservative — Leicester East
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent children from being exploited by drug gangs in (a) Leicester, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the UK.
Answer
Jess PhillipsThis Government is committed to tackling child criminal exploitation and going after the gangs who are luring children into violence and crime. That is why we are introducing a new offence of child criminal exploitation (CCE) and new civil preventative or...
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