Question follow-through · 123584
Drugs: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to ensure that in instances where serious injury or death results from the distribution of illegal substances, the distribution itself is made an offence
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 13 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to ensure that in instances where serious injury or death results from the distribution of illegal substances, the distribution itself is made an offence
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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13 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government has no plans to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (“the 1971 Act”) in this way. The maximum sentences for unlawful supply of controlled drugs under the 1971 Act are life imprisonment, a fine or both for Class A drugs, and 14 years’ impriso...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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