Drugs: Organised Crime
The question
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.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
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 and victims.
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