Cannabis
Commons · Question 10037 · Tabled 21 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received custodial sentences for personal possession of cannabis excluding people imprisoned for intent to supply, production, or importation in each of the last ten years.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 24 Oct 2024
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of offenders who received custodial sentences for possession of cannabis in the Outcomes by Offence tool: December 2023.This can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Sentence Outcomes’ tab and using the ‘S...