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Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has not published an annual report since 2019; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that the Advisory Coun

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

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Recorded timeline

22 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has not published an annual report since 2019; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that the Advisory Coun
24 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention met the Chair of the ACMD, Professor Owen Bowden-Jones on the 29th October 2024, as part of this Government’s wider work on tackling the harms associated with drug misuse.Regular meetings with the ACMD ...

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