Written Question·Home Office·UIN 69331

Drugs: Anti-social Behaviour

Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 3 September 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UK — Ashfield

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the penalties for antisocial drug smoking.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The maximum penalty for possession of a Class A drug is up to seven years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to five years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.