Question follow-through · 63936

Spiking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to improve data collection on the prevalence of spiking.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jul 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to improve data collection on the prevalence of spiking.

  2. 2 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    From April 2026, offences which involved spiking will be added to the Home Office’s Annual Data Requirement. This is the formal mechanism through which the Home Office collects data from all police forces in England and Wales. This will ensure that the Ho...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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