Question follow-through · 82395
Ketamine: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the reclassification of ketamine as a class B drug on its illicit availability.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the reclassification of ketamine as a class B drug on its illicit availability.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
Ketamine is a dangerous substance, which can cause irreversible bladder damage and in some cases death. Ministers are very concerned about the harms ketamine causes and on 16 October 2025 the Department for Health and Social Care launched a campaign to al...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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