Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress has been made on the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances' 2021 annual report.

The Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances is independent of Government. The Committee does not publish a separate annual report. The Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees sets out the information which should be published. These are the Committee’s purpose and activities, its membership and members’ interests and a financial statement. With the exception of a financial statement, these are published in the minutes of its meetings, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/advisory-committee-on-borderline-substances

No financial statement is published because there is negligible financial activity to report. Members are not paid any fees or honoraria for their services and are entitled to claim repayment of expenses.