Question follow-through · 69832
Drugs: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of harm reduction policies on levels of drug-related crime.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of harm reduction policies on levels of drug-related crime.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government is determined to tackle drug harms and drug-driven crime. This includes investment in drug treatment and wider healthcare services, support for those recovering from drug dependence, enforcement to tackle drugs supply overseas, at the borde...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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