PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Drugs: Organised Crime (17 March 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's package of measures to tackle county lines drugs gangs, announced on 1 October 2019.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

We are investing £25 million this year and next to crack down on the county lines drugs gangs exploiting our children and terrorising our communities.

£5m of this investment is already in operational use, and a number of law enforcement operations resulting directly from it have taken place. For example, on 25 February a cross-force operation by forces including Merseyside Police and the British Transport Police saw 56 people arrested for drugs offences, and significant quantities of drugs, weapons and cash seized.

The Home Office has established a County Lines Task and Finish Group through which we work with operational partners to monitor progress.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
25 March 2020