Question follow-through · 982

Drugs: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing harm reduction centres for drug users.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
24 Jul 2024
Answer
30 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing harm reduction centres for drug users.

  2. 24 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    No recent assessment has been made of the potential merits of introducing ‘harm reduction centres’ for drug users, including any implications for UK drug legislation. Such centres are sometimes referred to as drug consumption rooms or safer consumption fa...

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