Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 84272

Driving under Influence: Drugs

Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 31 October 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much her Department has spent on drug-driving (a) enforcement and (b) communications campaigns in each year since 2023; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of those campaigns.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
The Department for Transport does not hold responsibility for enforcement, this is a matter for police forces. The last paid THINK! drug driving campaign ran in 2015, to coincide with a change in drug driving legislation. To address an increase in drug dr...
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