Exploitation: Children

(asked on 30th July 2024) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to criminalise the act of exploiting children for criminal purposes.


Answered by
Jess Phillips Portrait
Jess Phillips
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 3rd September 2024

The Government is committed to preventing young people being lured into crime, drugs, and criminal gangs. We will deliver on our Manifesto commitment and will bring forward measures to strengthen the law to tackle child criminal exploitation.

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