Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward proposals equivalent to those under the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 to increase the period where an individual can be charged for drug driving offences up to the point of receipt of lab results of the evidential sample.

We have given consideration to this approach but have no plans to make such a change, especially given that we have been advised by the National Police Chief’s Council that toxicology supply has now significantly increased, and all backlogs have been cleared.