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date	09/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle county lines drug trafficking and safeguard children from exploitation; and whether she plans to increase funding to (a) Enfield and Haringey Metropolitan Police Service, (b) Enfield Council and (c) grassroots community organisations in Enfield North constituency to help tackle drug trafficking and safeguard children from exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	13246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the devastating impact of county lines activity on children and vulnerable people.</p><p>We are determined to disrupt these ruthless gangs and put an end to exploitation. On 20 January the Government announced £40m of dedicated investment for 2021/22 to tackle drugs supply and county lines, doubling our investment from last year. This includes funding for The Metropolitan Police’s Operation Orochi, which provides a dedicated taskforce to tackle county lines activity.</p><p>Since it was launched, in November 2019, our County Lines Programme has already seen more than 780 lines closed, over 5,100 arrests, £2.9 million in cash and significant quantities of drugs seized, and more than 1,200 vulnerable people safeguarded.</p><p>In addition, we continue to fund specialist support available for those affected by county lines exploitation including through Missing People’s SafeCall service. This national service provides confidential, specialist advice and support to young people and their families/carers who are affected by county lines exploitation anywhere in England and Wales.</p><p>From 2019-2022, £105.5 million has been invested in multi-agency Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in the 18 areas worst affected by serious violence, with £21,000,000 allocated to the MOPAC to develop the London Violence Reduction Unit.</p><p>We are also driving targeted action to respond to exploitation through the Home Office-funded Prevention Programme, delivered by The Children’s Society. The Prevention Programme has coordinators in each of the ten policing regions, including London.</p><p>This financial year, the Home Office is also continuing to fund Young People’s Advocates in London to support young women and girls at risk of or experiencing exploitation by gangs including county lines.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 18/06/2021 13:38:29 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1304451

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to protect vulnerable children from county lines drugs networks.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	913715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>Mr Speaker, with your permission, I would like to group this question with question 31.</p><p>We are determined to roll up county lines and protect vulnerable children from this harmful form of exploitation.</p><p>Through our £25m county lines programme we have already seen 3,400 people arrested, more than 550 lines closed and more than 770 vulnerable people safeguarded.</p><p>We have also increased investment in dedicated one-to-one support for county lines victims and their families.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/03/2021 16:25:57 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1304456

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to protect vulnerable children from county lines drugs networks.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	913729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>We are determined to roll up county lines and protect vulnerable children from this harmful form of exploitation.</p><p>Through our £25m county lines programme we have already seen 3,400 people arrested, more than 550 lines closed and more than 770 vulnerable people safeguarded.</p><p>We have also increased investment in dedicated one-to-one support for county lines victims and their families.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/03/2021 16:27:19 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1304558

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to protect vulnerable children from county lines drugs networks in (a) Slough and (b) the South East.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	173141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office is currently considering a response to this question and will respond shortly.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government recognises the devastating impact of county lines activity on children and vulnerable people.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are determined to disrupt these ruthless gangs and put an end to exploitation. In January we announced £40 million of new money to tackle county lines and drugs supply in the financial year 2021/22. This will bring the total invested in tackling this threat to £65 million since November 2019.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Through our £25m county lines programme we have already seen 3,400 people arrested, more than 550 lines closed and more than 770 vulnerable people safeguarded. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are also investing £105.5m into 18 Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) until March 2022 to tackle the root causes of serious violence via a whole system approach which can include activity to prevent and support victims of county lines.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Thames Valley VRU, backed by £3.48m investment to develop and sustain their VRU in reducing serious violence, are also targeting and supporting victims of county lines. For example, Thames Valley have established an enhanced information sharing network, which shares information on young people that might be at risk of county lines with specialist departments. The VRU can then provide support for those young people by introducing early intervention strategies embedded within the trauma informed approach. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In addition, we have extended the specialist support available for those affected by county lines exploitation and we continue to fund Missing People’s SafeCall service which provides confidential, specialist advice and support to young people and their families/carers who are affected by county lines exploitation anywhere in England and Wales.</ins></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/03/2021 16:46:20 question first ministerially corrected 06/04/2021 10:02:50 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 94512 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi