Written Question·Home Office·UIN 121403
Driving Under Influence: Drugs
Tabled: 17 March 2026
Answered: 26 March 2026
Question
Mr Richard Holden
Conservative — Basildon and Billericay
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2026 to Question 116788, if she will make an assessment of the annual cost to police forces of (a) administering roadside drug-impairment tests and (b) drug-driving t
Answer
Sarah JonesThe Home Office has not made an assessment on the costs to police forces for administering roadside drug-impartment tests under section 4 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and drug driving testing under section 5A of the Road Traffic Act 1988.