Question follow-through · 105355
Drugs: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police time is spent on possession offences compared with tackling organised drug crime.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police time is spent on possession offences compared with tackling organised drug crime.
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Police Activity Survey (PAS) provides an estimate of how much police time is spent on various policing activities. The PAS was conducted over a 7-day period in February 2023, with 35 out of the 43 police forces in England and Wales participating.The r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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