Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many under 21s have been arrested for possession of drugs in the last 12 months.

The Home Office does not hold the specific information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes information on arrests for notifiable offences on an annual basis in the Stop and search, arrests, and mental health detentions, March 2025 - GOV.UK statistical series.However, data is collected at the high-level offence group only, so arrests for “possession of drugs” fall within the wider “drug offences” category, and cannot be separately identified.