Written questions

Drugs: Organised Crime

Commons · Question 65176 · Tabled 4 Jul 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 14 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people engaged in county lines activity.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 14 Jul 2025

According to the NCLCC’s latest Strategic Threat and Risk Assessment, 13,084 individuals were identified by the police as linked to County Lines between April 2023 and March 2024.These individuals had a variety of roles, including offenders, drug users an...