Drugs: Misuse
Commons · Question 42028 · Tabled 27 Mar 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Charlotte Nichols
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider transferring responsibility for the misuse of drugs to the Department of Health and Social Care.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 3 Apr 2025
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...