Written Question·Home Office·UIN 80178
Nitrous Oxide: Bromsgrove
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Bradley Thomas
Conservative — Bromsgrove
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support the enforcement of the prohibition on the sale and possession of nitrous oxide cylinders in Bromsgrove constituency; and whether her Department plans to
Answer
Sarah JonesNitrous oxide is controlled under Class C of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. This makes it an offence to supply and possess it for ‘wrongful inhalation’, namely the inhalation of the gas for its psychoactive effect.There is a maximum sentence of 14 years’ i...
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