Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of licencing of pill presses.

The Home Office has not yet made a formal assessment of the potential benefits of regulating or licensing pill presses. We are engaging with the Scottish Government at ministerial and official level on this issue and with the National Crime Agency as well international partners.

We continue to review the evidence on the scale of the threat posed by organised crime gangs using pill press machinery in the UK and the options for addressing that threat.