Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2017 to Question 118056, what the timetable is for local authorities to report to her Department whether they commissioned forensic hair strand tests for drug and alcohol use from Trimega Laboratories Limited (Trimega) during the period January 2010 to April 2014.

Department officials have written to all local councils in England asking them to review whether they commissioned forensic hair strand tests for drug and alcohol use by Trimega Laboratories Limited (Trimega) during the period January 2010 to April 2014, and whether any action is necessary to fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities. We continue to work with local councils to establish the extent to which they used Trimega during this period.