Question follow-through · 90542
Mental Health Services: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the prevalence of the use of Class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs in NHS Mental Health Facilities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the prevalence of the use of Class (a) A, (b) B and (c) C drugs in NHS Mental Health Facilities.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
We currently have no plans to make such an assessment. NHS England does not hold information or data related to the prevalence of illegal drug use across specialised mental health facilities.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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