Children: Covert Human Intelligence Sources Debate

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Department: Department for International Development

Children: Covert Human Intelligence Sources

Lord Watts Excerpts
Monday 18th March 2019

(5 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Watts Portrait Lord Watts (Lab)
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My Lords, is the increase due to the amount of criminals who are now using young people, especially in the drugs-related elements of crime? What are the Government doing to address that problem?

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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My Lords, a number of complex matters are driven by knife crime, by gangs, by county lines and by drugs, and the noble Lord is right to raise the issue. I have gone through the various things we are doing on knife crime—including the Offensive Weapons Bill—and the various aspects of what we are doing to tackle drugs, most notably a public health approach to the issue.