Spiking: Arrests
Commons · Question 90350 · Tabled 12 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure perpetrators of spiking are (a) detected and (b) arrested.
Answer
Answered by Jess Phillips, 20 Nov 2025
Spiking is an abhorrent crime and illegal in any form, whether through food or drink, vape, or needle. It can affect anyone, at any time and in any setting, regardless of gender, sexuality or age.Between January 2021 and June 2023, the police received 19,...