Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on tackling drug-related harms of all of the recommendations made by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs between 2010 and 2014.

The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention met the Chair of the ACMD, Professor Owen Bowden-Jones on the 29^th October 2024, as part of this Government’s wider work on tackling the harms associated with drug misuse.

Regular meetings with the ACMD or its Chair will be held as appropriate, in accordance with the important work it does in assessing the evidence of drug harms.

The government will consider outstanding and forthcoming reports carefully.

The ACMD is independent. The publication of its annual report is a matter for the ACMD.