Question follow-through · 91520
Nitrous Oxide: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to support the enforcement of legislation to tackle the illicit use of nitrous oxide.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to support the enforcement of legislation to tackle the illicit use of nitrous oxide.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
Nitrous oxide was controlled under Class C of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in November 2023.The government has not provided specific support to the police for the enforcement of this legislation. There were 2,564 seizures of nitrous oxide by police and Bo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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