Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of community recovery services in helping people recover from addiction.

Community addiction recovery services include drug and alcohol treatment. In December 2021 the Government published a ten-year drug strategy which was coupled with an additional £532 million of funding over the three-year spending review period between, 2022/23, to 2024/25, for drug and alcohol treatment services. Evaluations assessing the delivery, impact, and value for money of these treatment and recovery programmes will be completed by Autumn 2025.