Written Question·Home Office·UIN 23632

Drugs: Misuse

Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 21 January 2025

Question

Mike Martin

Liberal DemocratTunbridge Wells

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of moving responsibility for drugs policy to the Department of Health and Social Care.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Responsibility for drug policy is shared across a number of departments and both the Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care have important roles to play in setting policy to tackle drug use and to reduce drug-related crime and drug heal...

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