Written Question·Home Office·UIN 23633
Drugs: Misuse
Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 21 January 2025
Question
Mike Martin
Liberal Democrat — Tunbridge Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of imposing civil rather than criminal penalties on people found in possession of drugs for personal use.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThere are no plans to decriminalise illicit drug use. The law allows for the prosecution of those who commit offences, including drug possession and supply. The police have a range of alternative options within the out of court resolution framework (such ...
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