Question follow-through · 11638
Drugs: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent the sale of (a) illegal and (b) prescription drugs on dark web marketplaces.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent the sale of (a) illegal and (b) prescription drugs on dark web marketplaces.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government takes seriously the threat from potent synthetic drugs, including synthetic opioids such as nitazenes, and is taking action to disrupt this deadly trade. Reducing drug harms has important benefits for public health and for the Government’s ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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