Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Henry Smith Excerpts
Monday 28th October 2019

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Duguid Portrait David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con)
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7. What steps she is taking to tackle county lines drugs gangs.

Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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18. What steps she is taking to tackle county lines drugs gangs.

David Morris Portrait David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale) (Con)
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23. What steps she is taking to tackle county lines drugs gangs.

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Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith
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Sussex police were recently in receipt of a Home Office grant to tackle county lines drug offences. Will my hon. Friend update the House please?

Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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My hon. Friend is a doughty defender of Sussex police and a great supporter, I know, of the brilliant police and crime commissioner there, Katy Bourne, who is doing a fantastic job. He is right that Sussex police have been in the forefront of the fight against county lines and have received significant funding of £900,000 through the early intervention youth fund and £1.3 million to support police operations in the area. I am happy to say that in the latest week of intensification of action against county lines, which I hope he noted the other week, Sussex police made 29 arrests and safeguarded 50 vulnerable individuals.