Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217156, whether the National County Lines Coordination Centre will be reporting on its activities.

The National County Lines Co-ordination Centre is a joint initiative between the National Crime Agency and the National Police Chiefs’ Council, supported by £3.6m of Home Office funding.

The NCLCC supports operational policing as well as providing a central point at which intelligence and information is shared and the links with criminal exploitation and illegal drugs markets are identified. The NCLCC co-ordinates weeks of intensive law enforcement action focusing activity and support on areas of highest risk. The NCA publishes information on the outcome of these weeks of action and details of the most recent activity in January, which led to over 600 arrests and 1000 people safeguarded, are available at nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news.