Written Question·Home Office·UIN 33876

Exploitation: Children

Tabled: 26 February 2025

Answered: 3 March 2025

Named Day

Question

Dame Chi Onwurah

Labour — Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of standardising the legal definition of criminal child exploitation for the purposes of having consistent national statistics on criminal child

Answer

Jess Phillips

This Government is committed to tackling child criminal exploitation (CCE) and going after the gangs who are luring children into violence and crime. Data from the Department for Education's Children in Need statistics allow us to estimate there were arou...

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