Question follow-through · 12473

Nitrous Oxide

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to tackle the illegal use of nitrous oxide.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
23 Jun 2026
Target answer date
29 Jun 2026
Answer
29 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to tackle the illegal use of nitrous oxide.

  2. 29 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Nitrous Oxide was controlled in November 2023 as a Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Under the 1971 Act, it is an offence to produce, supply, offer to supply, possess, possess with intent to supply, import and export nitrous oxide. Nitrous ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

No later same-department questions indexed.

This is an absence in covered public data, not evidence that no follow-up occurred elsewhere.