Written Question·Home Office·UIN 37288
Cannabis: Crime
Tabled: 11 March 2025
Answered: 14 March 2025
Named DayQuestion
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Labour — Clapham and Brixton Hill
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost of policing cannabis-related offences.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonIt is not possible from the available data to separate out the costs of policing these particular offences from other policing responsibilities, including in relation to other controlled substances.