who use drugs at nightclubs and dinner parties by taking away their passports and driving licences. daniel sandford, bbc news, westminster. the uk prime minister borisjohnson has been addressing questions about tackling problem drug users and the county lines networks. what is new is that we are putting a lot more investment, number one, into tackling the 300,000 problem drugs users who drive more than half of the acquisitive crime and half of the homicides in this country. crime has been coming down overall in the last couple of years but we are seeing a lot of problems caused by these 300,000 problem drug users and what we are doing is ramping up our campaign against the county lines networks that are preying on these users. you ve got to invest in rehabilitation, everybody who knows about drugs trials, 300,000 people, their lives are chaotic and they need to be taken off drugs, put into rehab, but you ve also got to come down hard on the gangsters who are making a hell
and more than a quarter of all robberies in england and wales are thought to be drug related. ministers are also keen to emphasise a further crackdown on what are known as county lines gangs, which sell drugs into smaller towns and bring problems of violence and exploitation of vulnerable people with them. as part of the push to tackle demand, the prime minister has talked about punishing people who use drugs at nightclubs and dinner parties by taking away their passports and driving licences. daniel sandford, bbc news, westminster. in the last few minutes the prime minister borisjohnson has been addressing questions about tackling problem drug users and the county lines networks. what is new is that we are putting a lot more investment, number one, into tackling the 300,000 problem is drugs users who drive more than half of the acquisitive crime and half of