Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 78015
Drugs: Death
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025
Question
Pete Wishart
Scottish National Party — Perth and Kinross-shire
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government was first advised by the Office for National Statistics that the information provided by coroners on death registrations relating to drug deaths could lack detail on the specific drugs involv
Answer
Josh SimonsThe information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 10th October is attached.