Question follow-through · 93345

Drugs: Stop and Search

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of stop and searches resulted in the seizure of (a) Class A drugs and (b) Class B drugs in each of the last three years.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 21 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 25 Nov 2025
Answer: 2 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of stop and searches resulted in the seizure of (a) Class A drugs and (b) Class B drugs in each of the last three years.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
The data requested is not held centrally.The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of stop and searches for drugs. The latest data is available here: Stop and search, arrests, and mental health detentions, March 2025 - GOV.UKHowever, data ...

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