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Offences against Children: Crime Prevention

Commons · Question 88610 · Tabled 10 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 20 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to work with relevant authorities to reduce instances of criminal child abuse.

Answer

Answered by Jess Phillips, 20 Nov 2025

Tackling child criminal exploitation is an important strand of our mission to halve knife crime by reducing the risk of children being drawn into criminality and violence.Through the County Lines Programme, we are targeting exploitative drug dealing gangs...