The move, revealed by Priti Patel at this week's Conservative Party conference, aims to expand a specialist support service to help young people and their families escape this type of criminal behaviour.
County lines involves gangs from major cities that extend their operations to smaller towns, often using violence and exploiting children and vulnerable young people to sell drugs.
In her speech to the conference, Patel said the funding package would stop gangs "terrorising our towns and villages and exploiting our children".
She said the extra money will be used to grow the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre to increase its capacity at regional and national level to disrupt county lines activity.
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