Written Question·Home Office·UIN 111554

Synthetic Cathinones: Smuggling

Tabled: 6 February 2026
Answered: 16 February 2026

Question

Dr Allison Gardner

LabourStoke-on-Trent South

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of importation of synthetic cathinones through mail; and what progress her Department has made in t

Answer

Sarah Jones
The Forensic Science Regulator has established a working group to develop regulatory requirements around the use of drug testing kits and devices. The working group involves police, forensic providers, academia and government organisations, including the ...

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