Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of the 18 December 2017 to Question 118871, whether any local authorities have informed his Department that they commissioned forensic hair strand tests for drug and alcohol use from Trimega Laboratories Limited (Trimega) during the period January 2010 to April 2014.

A number of local authorities have informed the department that they commissioned forensic hair strand tests for drug and alcohol use from Trimega Laboratories Limited (Trimega) during the period January 2010 to April 2014. We continue to work with local authorities to establish the extent to which they used Trimega during this period.