Question follow-through · 88828

Cannabis: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies have a licence to grow cannabis in the UK.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Nov 2025
Target answer date
12 Nov 2025
Answer
18 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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

Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies have a licence to grow cannabis in the UK.

  2. 12 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    There are currently 102 licences in extant to cultivate low THC cannabis (Industrial Hemp) in Great Britain. The majority of these licences will be issued to farms. A small proportion of these licences will be issued to educational or research institutes....

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