Question follow-through · 15346
Driving under Influence: Drugs
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help increase the number of prosecutions for people found to be driving under the influence of drugs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 5 Dec 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help increase the number of prosecutions for people found to be driving under the influence of drugs.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Dec 2024
Answer published
Enforcement of drug driving legislation and how available resources are deployed is an operational matter for individual Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners to determine in conjunction with local crime and policing plans, taking into accou...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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